FCTA promotes over 3, 000 officers

By Abdullahi Muhammad

Over 3, 000 staff of FCT Administration including former Acting Directors have been elevated to various grades following the 2016 promotion and confirmation exercises held by the Administration.
As a result, 46 Acting Directors have been confirmed as substantive Directors and deployed to various secretariats, departments and agencies (SDAs).
The Permanent Secretary, FCT Administration, Mr. Chinyeaka Ohaa, disclosed this recently while speaking to newsmen on the far-reaching measures approved by the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, to reposition the Administration for greater productivity.
This, he said, was in keeping with the Minister’s commitment to strengthen FCTA institutions for effective service delivery and to reinforce incentives for greater productivity.
Ohaa said from January 1, 2018, all eligible officers for appointment into all grades of the directorate cadre would be subjected to written examinations as applicable in the Federal Civil Service.
“Similarly, appointments, promotion and discipline of all staff under the FCT Administration, including teachers, have been centralised in the FCT Department of Human Resources.
“This is with a view to providing a level playing field for career advancement for all staff of the Administration. The Administration frowns on the experience where officers who enjoyed easy rides to promotion were posted across the service and became seniors over their peers who unfortunately were subjected to stricter promotion procedures,” he said.
In another development, the Administration has revealed that some Senior Secondary Schools had been delineated as Grade ‘A’ schools, and would now be headed by Principals of the equivalence of Directors, on Grade Level 17.
“Consequently, 10 secondary schools have been so graded under the 2017 budget while a further 10 would be upgraded under the 2018 budget following the FCT Minister’s approval.
“Also, Directors of Administration and Finance (DAFs) who acted as Secretaries in the interval before the appointment of substantive secretaries have been reshuffled across various stations.
“These directors include: Alice Odey-Achu (Mrs.) to the Transportation Secretariat; Malam Ado Faskari is now DAF for HHSS, while Justina Maimagani (Mrs.) to Health Management Board as DAF.”
Others, according to him, include Hajia Safiya Umar DAF for Legal Services Secretariat; Malam Abdulhamid Suleiman to AMMC, and Malam Musa Abdulraheem Anumah to Area Council Services Secretariat as DAF.
Other changes were Mrs. Eunice Ugochukwu, who now is DAF Education Secretariat, Malam Umar Marafa – Social Development Secretariat and Dr. Lazarus Gaza – Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat.
He further stated that the FCT Minister had expressed dismay at the situation where qualified officers, directorate cadre teachers spent over 10 years in one grade with the resultant drop in motivation and frustration.
In a related development, the promotion exercise for staffers of UBEB, SEB, and various agencies under the education secretariat have been concluded and would be forwarded for approval soon.

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