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The John Odigie-Oyegun Public Service Academy (JOOPSA), in Benin, Edo State, has trained 5,000 civil servants in the state since the start of the academy.
The Director General of the Academy, Precious Imuwahe Ajoonu, disclosed this yesterday while briefing journalists on the upcoming launch of the academy by the Edo State government.
She explained that the Academy was established by governor Godwin Obaseki with a strategic intent to foster accelerated human capital development within the state’s civil and public service.
“We have trained 5,000 public servants within Edo State till date. Our plan is to train 10,000 by the end of the year”, Ajoonu said, adding that governor Obaseki believes that civil servants are the engine room of governance hence the academy is equipping the civil servants with knowledge and skills to deliver good governance to Edo people.
“We want to have a public servant that can write properly, deliver quality memo, think strategically, have skills, good public and project management”, she added.
Besides, the Ajoonu said the academy was set up to upscale, and retrain public servants so that they will have requisite knowledge to be able to deliver, function well and compete any where in the world.
She however explained that the academy is backed by law to ensure its sustainability beyond the present administration, adding that in the next 10 years, Edo would have a different public service.
