Yemi-Esan: How We Are Sanitizing Federal Civil Service
POLITICS DIGEST – Acts of corruption have significantly been curbed in the federal civil service, says Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, yesterday.
Yemi-Esan, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, says she has fought corruption in the Nigerian civil service space.
She spoke at a parley with Media Executives, Editors and Correspondents covering her office.
She said that instead of waiting for civil servants to commit the crime, her office has devised measures to reduce the temptation.
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Highlighting the measures taken to reduce corruption among civil servants, the HoS said, “Specifically on corruption, there are quite a number of things we’ve done.
“The first thing is that we work very very closely now with the ICPC and the EFCC. So, anytime we notice anything, even if we’ve not been able to prove it, we call them in immediately.
“We don’t wait until there’s a lot of sensationalism. Once we discover that an officer is not doing well, we call the ICPC.
“We’re not waiting for civil servants to do something wrong before we catch them but to reduce the temptation. We also have the Whistle Blower thing that when you hear something or something you either write to the office of the head of service and the anonymous reporting system.
“We’re preventing the problems instead of waiting for the issues to come out then we start running helter skelter.”
