FCTA reiterates commitment to public service reforms

By Ukpono Ukpong

Reports reaching Daily Times states that the FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Aliyu, has described the creation of the Reform Coordination and Service Improvement (RCSI) Department in the Federal Capital Territory Administration as a deliberate effort to reposition the Administration for efficient and effective service delivery.

Aliyu in her speech during a oneday seminar on national strategy on public service reforms for all directorate cadres in the Federal Capital Territory Administration said the creation of the reform department also underscores a clear intent to continue to pilot the reform initiatives of the Federal Government.

The Minister who was represented by her Senior Special Assistant on Administration and Strategy, Prof. Muhammad Usman, retrospectively noted that since the creation of the Federal Capital Territory Administration in 2004, following the scrapping of the MFCT via Dissolution Order No 1 of 2004, the administration has carried out so many reforms which gave birth to the establishment of new Mandate Secretariats, Departments and Agencies.

Aliyu, affirmed that such reforms have assisted in no small way to reduce duplications, promote transparency and provide key services to the residents of the territory, just as she called on the leadership of the civil service represented by the directorate cadres to translate the vision into effective and efficient service delivery.

“The creation of the Reform Coordination and Service Improvement (RCSI) Department in the Federal Capital Territory Administration is not only in tandem with the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, it is a part of the internal efforts to reposition the Administration for efficient and effective service delivery.

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“It underscores a clear intent to continue to pilot the reform initiatives of the Federal Government such as institutionalising the Ease of Doing Business policy, and pushing hard to achieve the key programme objectives of economic diversification, private sectorled job creation, and aggressive poverty alleviation.

I am as convinced as you all are, that society is indeed dynamic and we shall be required to do new things in new ways in our search for genuine solutions to the problems we seek to confront.” she said