Ekiti has best civil service in Nigeria ― Fayemi

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has commended the state’s civil servants for their dedication and commitment towards achieving the lofty goals of his administration, saying the state parades the best Civil service in the country.

Fayemi, who stressed the need for civil servants to urgently embrace digitalization of all their activities to enable them to move with modern times, called on them to shun partisan politics in order not to jeopardise their effectiveness.

The Governor who stated this, on Tuesday, in Ado-Ekiti during a get-together with senior civil servants revealed that his administration was already working on automating land and property management service and Geographic Information System to allow for electronic management of activities such as electronic issuance of Certificate of Occupancy right from application stage to the stage of issuance.

“I agree with my colleagues who have spoken that we have some of the most qualified and dedicated civil servants in the country and we can be leaders in a variety of fields but we also must meet you halfway and enable and support you to be able to achieve a lot more in the area of capacity development and change management,” he said.

While calling on civil servants to work with the time and ensure they are digitally compliant, Governor Fayemi commended the Head of Service, Mrs Peju Babafemi for the stability of the Civil service as well as high level of efficiency, effectiveness and accountability.

He commended the civil servants for keeping the government running during the peak of the covid-19 pandemic, stressing that the government recorded and delivered more in terms of policy, programmes and projects during the pandemic than when there was no COVID-19.

Sharing his experience during last week’s visit to some offices at the Secretariat Complex, Fayemi urged them to discard the old culture of piling files and documents in offices and work towards the digitization of all their documents.

In addition, the Governor urged the senior civil servants to pay good attention to their health with regular medical check-ups. He personally presented medical kits to the senior civil servants which comprised Permanent Secretaries, Executive Secretaries and General Managers.

Earlier, the Head of Service, Mrs Babafemi commended the governor for giving the civil servants an auspicious avenue to rub minds with the governor on strategies for consolidating the gains of the administration in the last three years.

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Ekiti has best civil service in Nigeria ― Fayemi