Olu Samuel

Kogi State Government said it will continue to prioritize workers’ training and promotion to enhance their productivity in order to move the state forward.

The Special Adviser to Governor Usman Ododo on revenue generation Dr Nasir Rahman Ichanyi stated this on Saturday at the premises of Kogi State Polytechnic during the promotion examination exercise organized by the Kogi State Internal Revenue Service for it’s staff.

Dr Ichanyi , said training and promotion of workers in any organization or governmental system has no alternative, noting that as part of effort to motivate workers the state government will continue to ensure that workers are promoted as at when due.

“The KGIRS is an agency that generated revenue which the state government is using for it’s developmental strides and
for the Service to do more , the staff need to be motivated and one of the motivational factor is the promotion because if a staff is due for promotion and he or she is not promoted such staff can not put in his or her best.

“That is why the State Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo is interested in this exercise and the Executive Chairman of the Service Dr Salihu Sule Enehe is also interested in seeing the staff being promoted whenever they are due for promotion” he stated.” He noted

Speaking on the exercise the Special Adviser expressed satisfaction with the arrangement and assured that there is always room for improvement, stressing that “there is no process that is 100 per cent perfect”.

“This exercise will enable the staff to do their best on the job because when you are promoted to another rank it means more responsibility which is good for the Service” he added.

He urged the management of the KGIRS to always carry their staff along to enable them claim ownership of the Service for enhanced revenue generation.

In his remarks, the director administration and ICT, KGIRS Alex Akande , disclosed that 340 staff of the Service sat for the promotion examination to qualified them for another ranks in the organization.

He described the exercise as one of the three stages involved in the Service’s promotion process listing the stages to include; examination stage, oral stage and appraisal stage .

“The exercise today is the examination stage which we are conducting for the eligible staff of the service. 340 staff members who are qualified and due for promotion are here for the examination exercise.

“The promotion will ginger the staff to put more effort in learning because on yearly basis we conduct promotion examination for those staff that are eligible” he said.

Earlier, the consultant to KGIRS on promotion and training,
Professor John Alabi in his remarks, said the exercise is the promotion examination for four categories of staff , those who are managers, revenue officers , drivers and cameramen .

Alabi pointed out that the examination is to determined whether a staff will move to the next level or not, saying as a manager “if you spent two or three years on a particular level you need to move higher in the job”.

KGIRS is a proactive organization in the state that prioritized the welfare of it’s staff. We have been conducting promotion exercise for the service in the last five years without blemish. The one will also go the same way.

“There are three categories of grading , the filling of Application for Personnel Action (APPA) form, written examination and oral interview. All of these carried their percentages” Prof. Alabi explained.