Clean your house, FCSC chairman tells civil servants

Civil service needs to clean its house before it can reclaim its lost glory, the Chairman of Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has said.

The chairman spoke yesterday during his meeting with the executive councils of Labour unions in the commission in continuation of his interaction with the staff of the organisation.

He disclosed that the commission was broadening and deepening recent and ongoing reforms to address the virtual collapse of the internal management systems and structures that were the pillars of the service in its glorious era in the first decades of independence.

Olaopa identified structural constraints that limit the efficient and effective function of the service, including limited capabilities in planning, policy design and implementation, project management, performance monitoring and evaluation and reporting.

He said he and the Head of the Civil Service of Federation have been working together to prioritise interventions that would beef up policy intelligence, problem-solving, decision quotients, research and analytical work in MDAs.