Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, said that the vision of rebuilding the country and placing it on the path of progress and prosperity is possible if the nation can attract its best brains and best hands into the civil and public services.
The governor said this during a strategy retreat of the Heads of Service (HOS) of Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Edo and Delta states under the aegis of the BRACED Commission, held at the John Odigie Oyegun Public Service Academy (JOOPSA) in Benin City, Edo State.
The retreat is targeted at fostering excellence in the public and private sectors, while equipping participants from the six states in the South-South zone with the requisite skills to develop an action plan for the betterment of the region.
Obaseki, who is the Chairman of the BRACED Commission, while declaring the two-day strategy retreat open, said that the retreat will recreate the trajectory of an efficient and effective public service in the region.
He said that the retreat brings to the fore the question of how to rebuild the country through institutions and bureaucracy at the local, state and federal levels, a process he said can be achievable through ensuring that the best hands come from the civil service.
He said: “In my final year at the University of Ibadan, the Federal Civil Service and civil service from other states come to the institution to hire the best. This was why the public and civil service worked because it had quality people then.”
