Ekiti senior workers write capacity assessment exam
By Our Reporter 05/07/2012 00:05:00


Two hundred and fifty Ekiti State civil servants in the directorate cadre have sat for the capacity assessment examination to enhance their capability.

They are on Grade Levels 14 to 17. They took the examination at the School of Nursing in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, on Tuesday.

The examination lasted four hours.

The Permanent Secretary in the Office of Establishment and Trainings, Mr. Lekan Aiyeleso, said the examination was part of the new Civil Service Transformation Strategy of the state government, which was introduced to assess the capacity of officers on service delivery.

Explaining that the assessment is different from the promotion examination, the permanent secretary allayed the fears of the workers that it was a prelude to retrenchment.

He said the examination would enable the government to know the appropriate fields that officers should be posted, based on their competence.

Aiyeleso said: “The essence of this one is for the government to determine or analyse the personnel in the directorate level. It will also enable the government to know the training needs of the workers. This examination has nothing to do with retrenchment. If we all look back, the governor has been saying this consistently since he came on board, that he has no intention to retrench any worker except any worker who send himself or herself out of service.”

The permanent secretary said 275 candidates were registered for the examination but only 250 sat for it.

He said those due for retirement in the next two months were exempted from the exercise.

Candidates were tested on civil service rules and regulation, current affairs, use of English and professional questions.

Some of the candidates hailed the government’s initiative, saying it would improve the civil service, the engine room of government.

A director in the Office of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), James Owolabi, and an Assistant Director of Civil Engineering in the state, Mr Adeola Johnson, described the examination as the first in the state.

They noted that writing examinations was not new to them because they wrote entrance examinations before joining the civil service.

The most senior director in the state who is on grade level 17 and now serves as a Director of Public Health, Dr. Francis Ibikunle, described the assessment as an innovation based on merit.

He said people are put in positions based on their capacity, adding that this would make the workers to brace up and become conversant with the rules and regulations of the civil service and their professional fields.

The Director of State Information Services, Mr Kola Ajumobi, said: “I found the examination intellectually stimulating and it is a refresher course. It is indeed in furtherance of the compliance of Ekiti State to the national civil service reforms. I am happy to be a part of it.”

Gen. Orumov:
I thought they refused taking the exam sometime ago? If senior staffs can take the exam, why can't junior staffs do that also?

Spirit of Okija: EKITI ... Fountain of Knowledge!!

Please let them publish the result jor!! Make we see the kind stuff all those Professors are made of..

Especially Ileke Idi's scores..

Anybody who works there should help me Check Ileke Idi's scores..

Name: Iyawo Ileke Idi OluwaBimbo
Examination Number is; 00427..
Center; Ekiti Mental Retardation rehabilitation Center, Ado Ekiti..

Ame Lon Ro: Its a welcome development. Education and or reading/studying should be continuous for life. most people stop studying or reading the moment they leve school. It should not be so.Good development Ekiti. Let them also watch 3 idiots film, read rich dad poor dad, wealth without risk, the millonaire mind, 7 habits of highly effective people, etc.hehehe

Spirit of Okija: EKITI ... Fountain of Knowledge!!

Please let them publish the result jor!! Make we see the kind stuff all those Professors are made of..

Especially Ileke Idi's scores..

Anybody who works there should help me Check Ileke Idi's scores..

Name: Iyawo Ileke Idi OluwaBimbo
Examination Number is; 00427..
Center; Ekiti Mental Retardation rehabilitation Center, Ado Ekiti..