Head of Service of the Federation, Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan says the Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government is committed to bringing sanity to the public recruitment process.
Mrs Esan stated this while delivering a keynote address at a National Policy Dialogue on Entrenching Transparency in Public Service Recruitment in Nigeria organized by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Tuesday.
She stated that the government has entrenched transparency in the recruitment process through the effective deployment of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) to rid the system of ghost workers and reduce personnel costs. She stated that the government has commenced the digitization of the employment process to limit human interference.
The Head of Service noted that government agencies must be open in their recruitment process, engage professional human resource bodies in their employment process and complement the traditional method of recruitment with e-recruitment to eliminate human contact in the system.
According to her, the Nigerian government is committed to reducing the unemployment rate in the country and changing the narrative that recruitment is done on ‘who knows who basis’.
The dialogue organized by the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN), the research and training arm of the ICPC had in attendance representative of Senate President, Senator Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf; Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman of the ICPC; DR. Tukur Bello Igawa, Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission; Musiliu Smith, Chairman of Police Service Commission (PSC) among others.
