By Adesoba Toluwalope
The Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has assured that no worker will be sacked as a result of the ongoing reforms to reposit the civil service for optimal performance and efficient service delivery.
The Edo State governor said this on Friday during an interactive session with civil servants undergoing training under the John Odigie Oyegun Civil Service in Benin.
Obaseki had disclosed that the ongoing reform was made to strengthen and retool the civil servants, bestowing the workers with tools and skills that stand them out so as to achieve sustainable, excellent efficiency and productivity in the state.
He said that workers would instead be trained and introduced to technology to enable them deliver efficiently to the service, and to contribute their own quota of the growth of the state.
Obaseki said, ” The priority of my administration is to re-tool the civil service with the aim of strengthing it to deliver efficient services. If you want government policies to succeed, you must strengthen the people and institutions that have the constitutional responsibility to ensure the delivery of the services.
“We are undertaking reforms to make the public and civil service of the State to be one of strongest, if not in the sub-continent but in Nigeria.
“We are training our civil servants to enable them to do their jobs well. We need to bring in more people into the civil service and make sure that they are clear on what they will be doing when hired.
“Government can’t deliver services to its people if the civil servants who are supposed to help the government are not properly trained. These facilities have been built and people bring it in to train our workers, making them understand what their challenges are and redesign the system to make it work better.”
