FROM: PAUL ORUDE BAUCHI
The Bauchi State Government is set to conduct the 2017 promotion
examinations for no fewer than1,527 civil servants in the state.
This was disclosed by the state’s Head of Service (HOS), Alhaji Liman
Bello, during the opening ceremony of two days sensitisation workshop
organised by state government in collaboration with Dugge Management
Service Limited, for the civil servants in preparations for the exams
Bello, said the workshop was part of strategies to strengthen the
Civil Service for effective service delivery.
He said the administration embarked on the promotion examination for
civil servant in the state to discover those who are qualified and
have the required knowledge.
According to him, the examination will pave the way for promotion an
acquaint civil servants with regulatory, professional and general
knowledge to contribute immensely in boosting their capacity and
effective performance of their duties for efficient service delivery.
Bello said the state government attached high premium to the reform
agenda by training and re-training of civil servants on different
aspects of the civil service to enable them appreciate and contribute
effectively to the betterment of the lives of the good people of
Bauchi state.
In his remarks, the state’s Permanent Secretary Establishment and
Servicom Matters, Alhaji Sani Ahmed, represented by a Director
Alhaji Tijjani Ishiyaka, explained that civil service promotion
examination introduced in to the state civil service has the main
merit of keeping public officers abreast with the civil service
regulations.
Ishiyaku said that procedures and general knowledge are vital for
ensuring an effective and productive public service.
He urged the participants to listen attentively to the end to and get
acquainted with the civil service rules and also get promoted.
Earlier speaking the lead consultant of Dugge Management service
Limited ,Alhaji Gambo Magaji stressed that the workshop and the
promotion examination will qualified the civil servants for promotion
and guide against any guess work, saying Era of guess work are over.
Magaji advised that civil servants should wake up to the reality of
situation, “gone a days that things are done anyhow, now that the
world is a global village any thing you do would reflect within a
bleak across the globe,” he said.