DELTA HoS URGES CIVIL SERVANTS TO BE MORE DEDICATED AND PROFESSIONAL

Delta State Head of Service, Mr. Reginald Bayoko, has said the civil service remains constant in spite of the new administration in the state.

Mr Bayoko, who was speaking on the prospects of the civil service in the second tenure of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, said civil servants needed to be more dedicated to their duties and more profesdional to enable government achieve set goals.

The Head of Service said the Okowa administration had promised to implement the new National Minimum Wage once the federal government flagged off the implementation, stressing that government was not contemplating retrenchment or retirement of workers as a result of the new National Minimum Wage.

He, however, admitted that government was aware that certain civil servants falsified their age in order to remain longer in service and had set up a committee to fish out such persons.

Mr. Bayoko disclosed that those who ought to have retired from service and had been identified by the screening committee would soon be flushed out of the system, in a bid to build a virile civil service.

The HoS said the committee set up to look into the aborted 2015 recruitment exercise in the state had submitted its report which would soon be presented to the Governor, urging those affected to be patient.

He said the state government would continue to take the welfare of workers seriously, adding that training and retraining of staff, granting of car and housing loans would be sustained in order to boost the morale of workers and make them more efficient and productive.