FCTA to Train 1500 Workers on Civil Service Strategy Plan

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja

The Federal Capital Territory Administration, (FCTA), is expected to train 1,500 staff on the new Federal Civil Service Strategy and implementation plan 2021 – 2025.
The Director, Human Resource FCTA,  Mohammed Bashir, disclosed this yesterday, at the maiden capacity building for 150 staff of FCTA on the new civil service plan in Abuja.

He said the policy was an initiative of the Head of Service of the Federation, which the FCTA through the Reform Coordination and Service Improvement has fully embraced.
He said the training was to bring all workers up to speed with the new policy across the Secretariats, Department and Agencies (SDAs) of the FCTA towards enhancing effective service delivery in the territory for national development.

“It is a training to make our staff acquainted with the new Civil Service reforms for effective service in FCT. The training cuts across all cadre from level 12-16 in all SDAs, mainly admin officers.

“The reform seeks to achieve new phase of civil service, where the practice of analogue civil service will be gone,” Bashir added.
He said the reform would enable every staff within the system to have a schedule and be assessed based on the new form of performance management system which was drawn from Standard Operation Procedure.  

“And once there’s any problem, someone will be held responsible. By this, civil servants will now own the project and people will put in their best for Nigeria to succeed,” he said

Also, the acting Director, Reform Coordination and Service Improvement, Dr. Jumai Ahmadu, stressed the need for all civil servants to move with the global tide of embracing technology and get themselves acquainted with the utilisation of computers for proper record keeping.
She emphasised the place of hard work and reward system for outstanding civil servants, noting the government has mechanism in place to reward discerning workers.

“One of the major component of FCTA is the culture of change, arriving to work early and you will finish your work early. And doing the right thing would go a long way to enhance your productivity.

“We must be ready to move from our old ways so that the world would not leave us.  
“Just like the Head of Service organised a civil service week, a civil servant won a brand new car and others won N500,000 each.
“We have 150 today and it is going to be in 10 series and this is the first. It is going to be 10 sessions and everyone would be carried along.

I want every civil servant to embrace the new ways of doing things.” Ahmadu said.