Former Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, Dr Tunji Olaopa, at the weekend explained posited that to experience the desired change in the Nigerian civil service, government must embark on a deconstruction of the system.

Olaopa in an interview with reporters in Ibadan on the establishment of the Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy said although the colonialists laid the theoretical and value foundation for the Nigerian civil service, the country has refused to undertake a reconstruction of the system to reflect the changes, which government institutions have gone through since then.

He lamented that despite the several changes the country has witnessed, the civil service has continually remained stagnant.

“A lot of the things we practise in government lack theoretical basis when talking about public sector management system.

They are more like common sense. A whole lot of these were conceived properly in the First Republic because the colonial administrative system taught the first generation, brought them up in the knowledge of what the parameters are; what you can call the theoretical and value foundation for the civil service institutions.

“But even the institutions have changed over time. Yet, we still carry on, based largely on experience, rarely rigorously deconstructing the institutions to reflect the changes.

These are the factors constraining effectiveness of some of these institutions, ‘’Olaopa said

The school has lined up programmes for its first international conference slated for February 1 and 2, 2016 in the state capital.