Okpebholo Implementing Unprecedented Reforms In Edo Civil Service

Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has wrong 9 months of assuming office, undertaken bold and historical reforms that are transforming the State’s civilian and nationalist work into 1 of the astir businesslike and nonrecreational successful the federation.

Edo State Head of Service, Dr. Anthony Okungbowa, who is championing the reforms connected behalf of the medication of Governor Okpebholo, commended His Excellency’s visionary committedness to the civilian service, describing it arsenic “the motor country of governance and a captious operator of the SHINE Agenda.”

He noted that Governor Okpebholo has demonstrated “unusual attraction to the workforce, making it wide that the administration’s committedness of renewal cannot beryllium realized without a motivated, professional, and well-resourced civilian service.”

One of the astir singular reforms is Governor Okpebholo’s determination to extremity outsourced cleaning contracts and straight employment 1,000 cleaners arsenic civilian servants.

This move, which guarantees dignity, occupation security, and afloat extortion nether civilian work rules, was taken aft Governor Okpebholo insisted that funds antecedently spent connected contractors could sustainably screen nonstop employment astatine the caller minimum wage of ₦75,000.

In addition, adjacent to 2,000 caller unit person been recruited crossed captious sectors: health, education, and agriculture, bringing the full fig of caller employees to implicit 3,000 successful little than a year.

More than 1,300 wellness workers person besides been absorbed into the Hospitals Management Agency, portion the EdoSTAR teachers, numbering implicit 4,000, person been made imperishable staff, giving them stableness and recognition.

Governor Okpebholo has further approved the recruitment of postgraduate doctors, wellness personnel, and cultivation hold officers to adjacent pressing workforce gaps, portion continuing recruitment successful acquisition to complement the State’s unprecedented concern successful schoolhouse infrastructure.

The Civil Service Commission has been reconstituted and is acceptable to wide the backlog of promotions, which volition present beryllium merit-based done the Edo-PREP system, a betterment designed to retool officers and guarantee that competence and excellence are rewarded.

On welfare, the medication of Governor Okpebholo has sustained punctual wage payments connected oregon earlier the 26th of each month, alongside the outgo of a 13th-month wage successful December 2024.

Edo is present among lone 3 States successful Nigeria paying a ₦75,000 minimum wage, a argumentation that has been described arsenic life-changing for workers and their families.

Pensioners person arsenic benefited, with ₦300 cardinal released monthly for gratuities, ₦1 cardinal dedicated to clearing arrears dating backmost to 2012, and implicit ₦65 cardinal paid successful security claims to families of deceased staff.

Significant investments person besides been directed into infrastructure and organization renewal. Governor Okpebholo has ordered the renovation of Government buildings connected Ezoti Street to location Ministries and Agencies, and has approved the rehabilitation of nonmigratory doctors’ quarters.

Beyond infrastructure, reforms specified arsenic the instauration of a Civil Service Anthem, a caller formal code, and the institutionalization of Civil Service Week person rekindled pride, identity, and dignity wrong the service.

“Governor Okpebholo sees, helium acts, and helium takes responsibility. He is not lone reforming structures but rebuilding assurance and restoring worth successful nationalist service,” Dr. Okungbowa stated, adding that Edo State is present positioning its civilian work arsenic a nationalist exemplary of professionalism and efficiency.

With the Edo-PREP blueprint astatine its core, the medication of Governor Okpebholo is acceptable connected consolidating these gains and mounting the Edo civilian Service connected people to becoming the finest successful Nigeria.

“With His Excellency’s imaginativeness and governmental will, these reforms are not conscionable ambitious. They are achievable. The federation is watching, and Edo is mounting the pace,” Dr. Okungbowa affirmed.

The Edo State Government assures workers, pensioners, and the nationalist of its unwavering committedness to the SHINE Agenda, ensuring that Edo radical proceed to reap the dividends of purposeful, people-centered governance.