…From Dele Ogunyemi, Ibadan…
Governor Isiaq Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has said that his administration’s commitment to the restoration of the lost glory of the state Civil Service remains sacrosanct.
This, he said, was in order to achieve professionalism, a well motivated workforce, highly skilled, intelligent and articulate staff across cadres, honest and corruption-free workforce and ICT-driven, with vast knowledge of global best practices.
The governor stated this while speaking at the public presentation of a book “We Served our Generation: Perspectives and Reflections on Western Nigerian Civil Service’’, put together by the Association of Retired Heads of Service and Permanent Secretaries, Oyo and Osun States, at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan on Thursday.
He said that in the last two and half years, his administration had created a well-equipped and robust workforce with renewed focus on performance and quality service delivery.
“The strategy employed to achieve this renewed commitment was based on a pivot of restoring civil servants’ pride in themselves as the engine room of government and governance.
“This we carried out through massive governmental interest in the career development of all civil and public servants,’’ the governor said, adding that till date, no government in the history of the state had trained civil servants within and outside the country as his administration had done.
He also said that his government had ensured good working environment, purposeful leadership for the civil service through its top echelon, as well as ensuring civil servants’ promotion as at when due , while obsolete rules and regulations in the service had been reviewed through encouragement of ICT-driven service.
“The performance of this administration, for which we get kudos all over the world, could only have been achieved with a robust civil service serving as the engine room of our policies and programmes.