By Funmilayo Adeyemi
Abuja – The Exam Ethics Marshals International (EEMI), an NGO, has commended the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, for supporting the public service examinations best practices project.
Mr Ike Onyechere, the founding Chairman of the organisation, made the commendation in a statement in Abuja on Monday.
Onyechere described the governor as a proactive leader for being the first to give approval for hosting the capacity building programme on mainstreaming best practices in public service recruitment, confirmation and promotion examinations.
“The Kaduna State Civil Service Commission hosts confab for MDAs and LGAs on mainstreaming best practices in public service recruitment and promotion examinations.
” This is geared toward raising high performance workforce that can effectively contribute to generation of IGR for fulfilment of government obligation without dependence on statutory allocations in season of resource scarcity. ”
Onyechere said that the confab would be a follow up to the national launch of the public service examination best practices held in Abuja in July.
He said that the confab, which would be hosted by the Kaduna State Civil Service Commission, is expected to come up between September 11 and 14 at the Nigeria Defence Academy, Ribadu Catonment, Kaduna State.
Onyechere said the conference would empower government organisations with comprehensive, up-to-date and practical knowledge for best results in public service examinations.
He said it would also help to generate more Internally generated revenue to fulfill government obligations in season of resource scarcity and without undue dependence on federal statutory allocations.
” The project empowers public service agencies with information on how to mainstream ethics, integrity, transparency and best practices in generation of applications, screening, qualifications, interviews, tests, verifications and orientations.
“Others areas are training, promotions, motivations, attitudes, management, leadership, performance contracts, conflict intervention, public enlightenment and technology.”
Onyechere said the importance of the Kaduna State Government’s support for the initiative was underscored by six important facts which included the need to survive as viable entities and loss of credibility of some instruments of evaluation.
He listed others as trend towards performance contract, validity and reliability of public service examinations, ICT compliance and negative rumours.
NAN reports that the EEMI was founded in Nigeria in 1996 and operational across Africa with commitment to promoting ethics, integrity and best practices in examination, assessment and evaluation system. (NAN)