To eliminate disparities, the Federal Government has begun the process of harmonising compensation for employees of ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs).
Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, the Federation’s Head of Civil Service, told reporters on Monday in Abuja that the process might be completed by the end of the year.
She addressed the African Initiative for Governance (AIG) participants at an interactive session on the public service leaders’ program.
Yemi-Esan, who chairs the Presidential committee on harmonisation of pay in the public sector, revealed that the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission helped with a lot of the work (NSIWC)
She did point out, however, that the biggest difficulty was the large pay gap between employees of agencies with high Grade Level incomes and core government servants with pitiful pay.
She said: “Quite a lot of work has been done. The problem that the committee is having right now is high difference. It may not be possible to bring everybody that is high there down and it is possible to bring everybody to that high salary Grade Level”.
The Head of Service, on the other hand, urged employees at the main Ministries not to be discouraged by the low pay structure, saying that the new performance management system being implemented in the public sector emphasizes hard work and meritocracy.
She went on to say that an ideal civil servant must be visionary, hardworking, and honest. She stated that these attributes, among others, must be present in the lives of individuals who aspire to reach the pinnacle of their professions.
She stated that some Ministers who use Special Assistants (SAs) to carry out almost all of their programs with little or no input from Ministry staff are unaware of the quality and capacity of civil servants working under them, and that some of them are under the mistaken impression that “civil servants are nonentities.”
“We must sit up to meet the expectations of the political class,” she said, challenging employees to always improve themselves in order to stay relevant.
Professor Chris Stone, co-chair of the public service leaders program, said the training was aimed to prepare a generation of Nigerian public workers.
Stone who is a Professor of Practice of Public Integrity at the Blavatnik School said the inaugural batch of the special training has 50 participants and that the number would be increased to 100 in 2022.
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