By Olugbenga Salami
To ensure successful implementation of the federal civil service reforms, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Police Affairs, Mr. Abel Olumuyiwa Enitan has charged the Directors and Performance Management System, PMS champions to sustain the PMS process in the consciousness of the staff.
Enitan gave the charge during the ongoing four-day training on the Design and Implementation of a PMS for the departmental champions towards institutionalization of the system in the ministry at its headquarters in Abuja.
The Permanent Secretary, according to a statement issued on Tuesday by the Deputy Director (Press) in the ministry, Bolaji O. Kazeem, explained that it was a shift from the traditional Annual Performance Evaluation Report, APER to PMS that would enable objective assessment of staff, adding that APER is not going to be in operation as from 2024 and the need for the ministry to robustly implement PMS.
“The APER is usually filled to suit ourselves by awarding marks that are not reflective of our works. The gaps in the APER are very obvious and the need to shift to a more realistic PMS policy in the civil service.
“The management came up with the idea of having a champion in each department and unit and they are expected to be the advocate of PMS to staff after the robust training facilitated for them,” he said.
According to him, the PMS has come to stay and everyone should embrace it and the need for directors/champions in the ministry to continue to create awareness and sustain the PMS process in the consciousness of the staff and should be cascaded along the ladder for full implementation in the ministry.
Earlier, the Co-ordinator of the PMS, Professor Adeyemi Ajayi disclosed that part of the System’s objectives is to provide a broad understanding of the PMS as an effective tool for repositioning the public service to become efficient, productive, incorruptible, and citizen-centered service, EPIC.
He added that the training would be practical oriented with exposure to Key Result Areas, KRAs; Key Performance Indicators, KPIs; SMART objectives, performance review, roles and responsibilities, and monitoring and evaluations mechanisms.
