The Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Prof Tunji Olaopa, said staff members of the Commission should not entertain any fear of rationalisation even as it concludes work on its strategic plan spanning 2026 to 2030.
The strategic plan, which is the first by the commission in its 71-year history, is meant to transform the FCSC into a critical human resources management (HRM) advisory hub that the Federal Government can draw on.
Olaopa, who spoke in an interview on the sidelines of the strategic plan validation meeting in Abuja on Monday, said rationalisation is not part of the strategic plan because the personnel of the commission are attracted from the central pool, which is located at the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation.
However, the FCSC boss said going forward, the commission might be recruiting a corps of its staff members.
“But that will take a little longer because it means we have to have a pay structure that is a little different from the service-wide known pay structure,” he said, adding that those are details for the future.
“In the meantime, we are going to find a way of embellishing the incentive structure so that within the framework of pay and compensation, we are still able to provide the motivation,” he noted.
Earlier in his speech, Olaopa said strategic plans of public sector institutions, for all practical purposes, typically provide a framework for translating strategic intent into concrete measurable action, performance improvement, resource optimisation and policy alignment.
“For the FCSC, it is a tool for rethinking traditional, outdated operations and processes, and for driving transformation in line with 21st-century governance and management principles,” he said.
He said the commission is not reinventing the wheel but is taking the benefit of comparable countries’ experiences as well as good cum smart practices that are observable in the reforms of civil service commissions across the Commonwealth in six domain areas.
