Bureau Inaugurates Team To Produce Compendium Of Public Service
The Director-General, of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, BPSR, Mr Dasuki Arabi, has inaugurated the inter Ministerial task team that will drive the production of the 2021-2023 Compendium of Public Service Reforms.
Speaking at the ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, Arabi gave the team six weeks to carry out the assignment and report back for further action.
He said; “We have started this programme in June and we have the next five months to the end of this year.
“We are expected to report what has happened, if there are things that have been planned and you are sure that it will happen, it can be reported.
“We want to make sure President Bola Tinubu inaugurates this project on the first working day in 2024; we have sent a request for his forward and other reforms by the office of the president as well.”
Arabi said all MDAs needed to provide pictorial and video evidence of reforms that had taken place in various sectors.
He said that “the project was one of the innovations of the bureau where every three years, a report on reforms in all government agencies was produced.”
According to him, we need to enlighten Nigerians, we need to engage them and provide information on our activities so that they would be able to judge us.
“That can only be fair and good if we provide them with the right information on our activity, they will know what we are doing and will be able to engage us.
“We also need to sing and dance our songs of success, looking at the Nigerian public service 20 years ago and today, definitely you will see a lot of changes that have come up as a result of the reforms that we do.
“This year, we are commencing the production of another compendium; the first one we produced was from 1999 to 2024, and the second was the Transformation Agenda that captured the activities of the government.
“The third was from 2018 to 2020; what we have done today is to commence the process of producing 2021 to 2023 compendium of public service reforms,” he said.
Arabi explained that the compendium would provide the new administration with a brighter light and understanding of the working of government, specifically on reforms from 1999 to date.
A member of the team, Mojisola Akpojiyovbi urged the team to think of all the good and positive changes that had occurred within the period.
According to her, the Nigeria of five years ago is different from the one today, as a lot of changes had occurred.
Akpojiyovbi said:“We need to think of all the good things being done, how we are changing.
“The Nigeria we are seeing today is not the Nigeria that was there five years ago, things have changed, and people are changing as the context is changing.”
NAN/ Mercy Chukwudiebere
