The Nigerian government has revealed plans to digitize its civil service as a way of curbing the act of its officials that often alter vital documents. This plan was revealed by Winifred Oyo-Ita, Nigeria’s acting Head of the Civil Service (HOS) of the Federation. She said this while on a visit to some ministries and government agencies.
She described as unfortunate the practice of keeping staff records and other important information in files, adding that such would no longer be tolerated.
“The system whereby records of civil servants are kept just anyhow in piles of files in registries which could get eaten up by rodents cannot continue in 2016. During my tenure, the records and document management of the Federal Civil Service will be fully automated,” she said.
She said this would help address issues of ghost workers and the changing of official records at will by some officials. She said that automation of records would also prevent officials from removing disciplinary documents from their files, adding that whatever was automated could not be tempered with.
