Bureau targets 2025 to make Nigerian public service among global best
The Bureau of Public Service Reforms says its various interventions are meant to strengthen the Nigerian public service and make it among the best 20 in the world by 2025.
Mr Dasuki Arabi, the Director-General of BPSR said this at a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum on Sunday in Abuja.
“We will not rest until all MDAs work effectively, efficiently, excellently upskilling and upgrading the standard of living of all citizens of this country.
“Already, we have some agencies in government that have got into that level.
“The reforms that we are driving and other MDAs are driving, we are hoping that we will get to that level.”
He said that the Federal Government had introduced various development strategies, visions and missions, including operating procedures and key performance indicators to reposition the public service.
Arabi said that the reforms were to make government operate like the private sector.
To meet the target, Arabi said MDAs were being reorganised to make them attractive, so that development partners could work with them.
According to him, government will continue to give citizens all needed support and information to excel.
“As a bureau, we have done quite enough from 2004 to date and we are very happy with the results we are seeing.
“The Nigerian public service of 1999 is completely different from the Nigerian public service of 2022, we have transformed, we have improved and we are improving.
“What we are saying and requesting is for all MDAs to key into the reform agenda of government, support the reforms, work with the BPSR and work with key central agencies.
“The hope of every government is to upgrade the life of every worker and give them the best.
“Those of us that are privileged to be there, we must understand that we must do what is right and proper,” he said.
Arabi said the bureau would continue to encourage states to key into the reform agenda of the Federal Government.
He disclosed that states such as Kaduna, Lagos, Gombe, Ogun had joined the Open Government Partnership to drive the reform of the public service.
The director-general, however, said that the Federal Government had made plans for MDAs to come up with strategies to attract support from development partners.
He assured that the Nigerian government would provide the enabling environment where public servants would work and excel.
“We are hoping that we will get to a stage where the private sector will come to the public sector to poach workers from the public service like before,” he said.(NAN)