Recruitment: ‘No Slots For Political Godfathers’, Akwa Ibom Governor Warns

Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has warned governmental godfathers and friends of authorities to steer wide of the recruitment workout into the civilian service, vowing that nary slots would beryllium allocated arsenic each applicant would beryllium selected connected merit.

Governor Eno besides explained the ongoing digitisation process of the nationalist work aimed astatine guaranteeing e-governance presumption of his medication for easiness of doing concern and fiscal transparency.

Speaking astatine the play portion unveiling Computer-Based Test (CBT) exertion centre designed for the forthcoming recruitment workout astatine the Idongesit Nkanga civilian work secretariat, the Governor confirmed the readiness of the authorities to behaviour the recruitment exercise, assuring that the installation has the capableness to accommodate up to 2,000 candidates daily.

He explained that the instauration of CBT successful the civilian work recruitment process was aimed astatine promoting merit, transparency, and ratio portion eradicating the power of godfatherism.

“The Civil Service is the motor country of governance. The prime of radical we bring into the work successful this 21st period matters. The satellite has adjacent moved to AI now, truthful we request radical who astatine slightest recognize basal computing to the grade that they tin instrumentality an exam.

“This strategy volition besides destruct godfatherism. People should person assurance that they got into the work by merit—by passing the required exams. We’re successful the 21st century, and that’s the mode it should be,” the politician stressed.

The State’s Head of Civil Service, Elder Effiong Essien, lauded Governor Eno’s determination to institutionalise e-governance regime, noting that “prospective candidates volition beryllium fixed the accidental to familiarise themselves with the strategy earlier the existent test.”

Also speaking, the Commissioner for Science and Digital Economy, Dr. Frank Ekpenyong, assured that “the CBT Centre is afloat equipped with digitally integrated systems to behaviour 2,000 tests daily.”

He explained that the installation was designed successful enactment with the governor’s imaginativeness of deploying exertion to guarantee transparency and merit-based recruitment into the authorities state’s civilian service.

“Governor Eno’s inaugural marks different milestone successful his administration’s thrust to modernise nationalist work operations done integer transformation, further consolidating his committedness to the ARISE Agenda pillars of governance, innovation, and inclusivity,” he stressed.