By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja
Kogi State Government has conducted promotion examination for 340 staff of the state Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS) with a pledged to continued to prioritize workers’ training and promotion to enhance efficiency in productivity and service delivery
Special Adviser to Governor Usman Ododo on revenue generation Dr Nasir Rahman Ichanyi who stated this on Saturday at the premises of Kogi State Polytechnic, venue of the promotion examination said the resolve is aimed at moving the state forward.
Dr Ichanyi said training and promotion of workers in any organization or governmental system maintain prime position as he declared that the state government would continue to ensure that workers are promoted as at when due.
“The KGIRS is an agency that generates revenue which the state government is using for it’s developmental strides and
for the Service to do more, the staff need to be motivated.
“And one of the motivational factors is the promotion because if a staff is due for promotion and he or she is not promoted such staff can not put in his or her best.
“That is why the State Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo is interested in this exercise and the Executive Chairman of the Service Dr Salihu Sule Enehe is also interested in seeing the staff being promoted whenever they are due for promotion”,he stated.
Speaking on the exercise the Special Adviser expressed satisfaction with the arrangement but however noted that there is always room for improvement as he stressed, “there is no process that is 100 per cent perfect.”
In his remarks, the director administration and ICT, KGIRS Alex Akande , disclosed that 340 staff of the Service sat for the promotion examination to qualified them for higher positions in the organization.
He said that the examination was the first stage of the three stages involved in the Service’s promotion process saying the other two are include oral stage and appraisal stage .
“The promotion will ginger the staff to put more effort in learning because on yearly basis we conduct promotion examination for those staff that are eligible” he said.
Earlier, the consultant to KGIRS on promotion and training,
Professor John Alabi in his remarks, said the exercise is the promotion examination for four categories of staff , those who are managers, revenue officers , drivers and cameramen .
Alabi pointed out that the examination is to determined whether a staff will move to the next level or not, saying as a manager “if you spent two or three years on a particular level you need to move higher in the job.
“There are three categories of grading , the filling of Application for Personnel Action (APPA) form, written examination and oral interview. All of these carried their percentages” Prof. Alabi explained. (Ends)