Why Past Civil Service Reforms Failed — Yemi-Esan

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folasade
Yemi-Esan, has attributed the failure of past civil service reforms
in Nigeria to poor funding, inadequate provision in MDAs to fund
implementation of reforms, lack of skilled manpower as well as poor
communication at planning and implementation stages.

She listed other factors as poor or total lack of ownership of
reforms by states, poor subnational coordination of reforms, poor
involvement of citizens, lack of synergy between public and private
sectors, policy somersault, rivalry and conflict of interest among
institutions, lack of political will to implement the reforms,
resistance to change, poor ICT infrastructure and political
interference.

She was delivering a virtual lecture on Public Service Reform
Programme Implementation in Nigeria to the participants of the
Senior Executive Course No.43 of the National Institute for Policy
and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru Jos.

She described as unwholesome, the practice in the past when the
civil service was seen as a welfare institution to recruit all
manner of people to mitigate unemployment crisis.

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folasade
Yemi-Esan, has attributed the failure of past civil service reforms
in Nigeria to poor funding, inadequate provision in MDAs to fund
implementation of reforms, lack of skilled manpower as well as poor
communication at planning and implementation stages.

She listed other factors as poor or total lack of ownership of
reforms by states, poor subnational coordination of reforms, poor
involvement of citizens, lack of synergy between public and private
sectors, policy somersault, rivalry and conflict of interest among
institutions, lack of political will to implement the reforms,
resistance to change, poor ICT infrastructure and political
interference.

She was delivering a virtual lecture on Public Service Reform
Programme Implementation in Nigeria to the participants of the
Senior Executive Course No.43 of the National Institute for Policy
and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru Jos.

She described as unwholesome, the practice in the past when the
civil service was seen as a welfare institution to recruit all
manner of people to mitigate unemployment crisis.