By Oyibo Salihu
Lokoja
The clock in, clock out system, introduced by Kogi state government is to check incessant truancy and absenteeism in the state civil service, Director General, Bureau of Information Services and Grassroots Sensitisation, Mallam Abdulkarim Abdulmalik, has said.
Abdulmalik, who described the system as very effective in tracking civil servants, stated this when he visited some offices to access the response to resumption of work after the festive season by the state civil servants in Lokoja, yesterday.
he expressed delight at the high turnout of civil servants to work and attributed the high resumption rate to the recently introduced clocking system by the present administration.
While commending the civil servants for reporting to their respective offices in such high number, the director general assured that the administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello was committed to an effective and functional civil service.
He pointed out that the renewed commitment to work exhibited by the state workforce was a pointer to the success of the public sector reforms carried out by the present administration in the state.
The DG assured of the commitment of the present administration to the welfare and wellbeing of all civil servants in the state, urging them to be more dedicated to the discharge of their duties.
He, however, emphasised that the workers’ electronic register device has come to be, saying “the electronic clocking device has no doubt put the final nail in the coffin of the ghost workers syndrome as well as the brazen act of absenteeism among some state civil servants.”
Abdulmalik reaffirmed government’s policy that with effect from this month, workers’ salaries would be based on the attendance outcome of the electronic clocking device.
