Dr. Oby Ezekwesili
Former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, yesterday,
said the vision to reform the country will require a civil service with
character, capacity and competence where the operatives are not immune to
changes.
She lamented that the civil servants in the country had
abandoned merit and result oriented strategies, noting that this was why a
country like Singapore had overtaken the country in development.
According to her, “Public servants have ignored the activities
required to achieve result and focused on the smallest aspect of governance. It
is the transactional mind of the country’s civil service that made the place
unattractive to the brightest brains in the country. Rather it became an
environment where people who are unconcerned about transaction are.”
The ex-minister stressed, “So if we want to compete with other
great nations, we must solve our problem with the best civil servants we can
find. Every public service in any nation will do well on the bases of the
competence, capacity and character of the people (civil servants) that are
assembled to solve the problem.”
She noted that lack of one of this would affect the present
administration’s pursuit to achieve its goal for the country, saying “If the
public service had gone back to what it was originally intended to be, more
than 100 million Nigerians will not be poor at the moment. For instance, China
has been able to lift about 600, 000 people out of poverty because they had a
better civil service.”
“The vision of the political leader requires an organized system
of execution that is powered by the civil servants in order to achieve result.
So the public service is that level of governance powered by the technical
experts assured with security premium that is consistent with the longevity of
nation building.
“If the country will make it, it would depend on the quality of
human beings that will dislodge the mentality of transactional civil service
that was put upon us by the virtue our addiction to oil as the basis for
economic development,” Ezekwesili, said.
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