From Jude Owuamanam Jos
Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang has said that he’s made it a policy of his administration that any civil servant less than three years from retirement will not be elevated to the position of a permanent secretary.
Speaking at the inauguration of five newly appointed permanent secretaries into the state civil service, the governor said that this is to ensure that the state benefit from the years of training the civil had garnered and the quality of service they would render to the state.
According to him, it won’t make sense if a director who has less than three years to retire was elevated to permanent secretary because the civil service will be worse for it.
He said, “It is the policy of this administration that those civil servants who have less than three years to retire will be made permanent. We want to retain the quality of service, which the permanent secretaries would render for a longer period so that the state will benefit from their years of experience.”
The governor, who gave hint of a massive redeployment of permanent secretaries, said some of them have stayed too long on a particular post.
Meanwhile Mutfwang has sought economic cooperation with a view to strengthening bilateral relations with the Czech Republic.
Speaking when he received the Czech Ambassador to Nigeria, Zdanek Krajei, the governor, said Plateau is rich in agriculture and mineral resources and sought the technical know how of Czech Republic in mining equipment.
He said that Plateau hoped to benefit from Czech industrialization policy, especially in the way they had achieved food sufficiency.
Speaking earlier, the ambassador the Ambassador, who said he was in Jos for the premiere of the play of Czech playwright and later president Václav Havel, which is presented by József József, said Nigeria and Czech Republic had had a 15-year period of economic relationship, said Czech Republic is a country with a very rich tradition in agriculture
He said, “When you mention agriculture, even if there are only two or three persons in the workforce of the Czech Republic, they are working in agriculture, they are able to feed all of us, all the country, and also produce all the export.
“We are very good in the production of the special products for the plant and animal production, irrigation. We can offer machinery, special machinery and tractors and drones for the surveillance”
The ambassador said that last year they did quite a big delivery of the tractors. to the Taraba state.
He called on Plateau government to key into these programmes.
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