C’River govt introduces KPI to regularise advancements of civil servants
The Cross River State Government has inaugurated the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) electronic template to match the attitude of civil servants in the state with job performance.
The template will shortly come up to harmonize and regularize the civil service system as promotions will now be productivity-oriented based.
The Head of Service, Timothy Ogbang Akwaji, made this known during a meeting with civil service Human Resource Desk Officers in Calabar.
He said the introduction of KPI is towards fulfilling the government’s desire to promote service excellence and maintaining ethical standards in the state civil service.
He said that the KPI is all about monthly performance evaluation report of Staff/Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), adding that it will be duly implemented.
“The reform process is geared towards establishing a robust performance management architecture that will be linked to promotion, training, development, employment, deployment, postings, retirement and demise in the civil service of Cross River State.
“This monthly evaluation in terms of salaries and pensions, will create transparency in the wage bill, reconcile the nominal and pay rolls, to uncover criminal insertions.
“It will also help with identifying itinerant, diaspora and absconded workers who receive alerts without working. Avoid deletion from the payroll because if the government is not owing you, why should you not be working?
“Workers should adhere to official time schedules which is 8am to 4pm. If you must leave the office within that time frame, fill the movement register. It is for your own safety. If anything happens to you, these two registers can give a clue to your recent whereabouts,” he said.
Director Public Service Monitoring and Evaluation, HOS, Dr. Stephen Eneji, thanked the Head of Service for his concern for workers, adding that the KPI is not a tool for witch-hunting but to help workers set professional target goals which are achievable.
