‘I don’t’ wanna be a civil servant’
with answering two questions namely: ‘What is it in the mainstream civil service that kills initiative, and frustrates talents; and ‘What is it about the civil service that seems to make it go in circles that lead nowhere?’Challenges of a Public Service Reforms Administrator: An Analysis of the First Year’ in ‘Nigeria Public Service Reform’- ‘The Vision and Challenges’.
Without any sustained and appreciable efforts to urgently remedy the situation, the civil service, especially the Federal Civil Service, is destined for a fatal crash from which it may never recover. The public service component of the change programme took off fully with the establishment of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms in February 2004, as the expert house and institutional champion of the reform programme.’The Obasanjo Reforms,
Political correctness is the order of the day, at the expense of manifest courage to speak truth to power. The system does not welcome diversity/systems thinking and innovation. The merit principle has virtually disappeared from the firmament of the service. Being courageous comes with a heavy price, hence a culture of silence, timidity and bootlicking reigns. Even directors have become little boys and girls who must appease the godfathers and mothers, within the system, in order not to be left out in the distribution of patronage and privileges.
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