Acting Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, has pledged to restore the integrity and dignity of the federal civil service by ensuring that all civil servants are efficient, productive, incorruptible and citizen-centred.
Mrs Oyo-Ita said this yesterday in Abuja during an extra-ordinary service-wide meeting of Federal Permanent Secretaries.
She said the civil service must be innovative and proactive by devising strategies and action plans that would assist the government in addressing the current challenges of rendering services in a most professional, efficient, timely and effective way.
She urged Permanent Secretaries in the federal civil service to brace up for the new dawn, stressing that time has come for innovations, better, efficient and proactive attitudes to ensure better service delivery to the citizens of the country.
According to her, the new civil servant shall be called “The Epic Civil Servant” signifying efficiency, productivity, incorruptibility and citizen-centred.
She said: “Efficiency, productivity and incorruptibility shall be the ethos of the new Civil Service and on a daily basis, the civil servant should be proud to make the following declarations: I am efficient, I am productive, I am incorruptible and I am citizen-centred.
“Under my leadership, there is going to be more structured training because we need to develop capacity, if you are making demands from your staff, you have to give them the basic training, the tools to execute their duties.
“The service should also expect that there will be enhanced performance management and measurement and that there shall be a definite structure for rewards and penalties for those who are failing short and those who are excelling must be rewarded with incentives to survive, we are going to develop more in the area of succession planning.”
, has pledged to restore the integrity and dignity of the federal civil service by ensuring that all civil servants are efficient, productive, incorruptible and citizen-centred.
Mrs Oyo-Ita said this yesterday in Abuja during an extra-ordinary service-wide meeting of Federal Permanent Secretaries.
She said the civil service must be innovative and proactive by devising strategies and action plans that would assist the government in addressing the current challenges of rendering services in a most professional, efficient, timely and effective way.
She urged Permanent Secretaries in the federal civil service to brace up for the new dawn, stressing that time has come for innovations, better, efficient and proactive attitudes to ensure better service delivery to the citizens of the country.
According to her, the new civil servant shall be called “The Epic Civil Servant” signifying efficiency, productivity, incorruptibility and citizen-centred.
She said: “Efficiency, productivity and incorruptibility shall be the ethos of the new Civil Service and on a daily basis, the civil servant should be proud to make the following declarations: I am efficient, I am productive, I am incorruptible and I am citizen-centred.
“Under my leadership, there is going to be more structured training because we need to develop capacity, if you are making demands from your staff, you have to give them the basic training, the tools to execute their duties.
“The service should also expect that there will be enhanced performance management and measurement and that there shall be a definite structure for rewards and penalties for those who are failing short and those who are excelling must be rewarded with incentives to survive, we are going to develop more in the area of succession planning.”
