President Muhammadu Buhari must be displeased with the civil service he returned to after his presidential stint in the ’80s.
On Monday, Buhari was represented by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at the inauguration of capacity building programmes, tagged “Structured Mandatory Assessment-based Training Programme and Leadership Enhancement and Development Programme”, for public servants in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Some of the words from Osinbajo’s presentation ascribed to the President, were withering.
“Many, who mourn the decline of the civil service today from its days as ‘primus inter pares’ in the Commonwealth to one which has earned a reputation for inefficiency, low productivity, corruption and insensitivity to the needs of the public, fall into the error of thinking that the problem is a poverty of ideas and capacity on the part of the civil service”.
Buhari said the civil servants were the government’s foot soldiers and should be the vanguards of the anti-corruption battle.
“An army cannot afford indiscipline, inefficiency or lack of focus, especially because the hopes and aspirations of a whole society rest on your shoulders,” the President told the civil servants.
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