By Alpha Abu
The Director General of the Human Resource Office (HRMO) Ansu Tucker has given an insight into the reforms taking place in the civil service, during the weekly press briefing organised by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Freetown.
He said the European Union is supporting the process in the sector through HRMO and the Public Service Commission, the latter being the regulatory body for the former
Tucker spoke about plans to review the civil service code for which a consultant will be contracted; an exercise that he said will also involve soliciting the views and inputs of all the relevant groups and stakeholders right across the country. Out-moded and overlapping functions and complexities in the management of public service institutions are to be reviewed to suit the present demands. He stated also that consideration would be given to gender -related issues.
He disclosed efforts by HRMO and the Ministry of Information and Communications geared toward installing of electronic registers at the various government departments to track workers punctuality and efficiency. He said the servers have already been installed at twenty MDAs for the full commencement of the system.
The HRMO boss disclosed that 500 workers all over the country have been trained in recent times as part of the HRMO’s capacity -building of workers. In that regard, he spoke of the department’s objective of augmenting the government’s Medium Term Development Plan by strengthening public service delivery and that performance management was being scaled up in the various sectors as well.
He highlighted the recruitment last year of 3,798 personnel into the civil service. Of that number, 3,000 were nurses who got their pin codes whilst the rest got drafted into the various departments in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
He revealed that over four hundred civil servants retired in 2020. The HRMO before its transformation in 2008 was called the Establishment Secretary’s Office. The Public Service Commission is the regulatory arm of the civil service whilst HRMO coordinates the operations of the various MDAs.
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