Ogun Workers Pay For Re-Sit Promotion Exams

Mr Babatunde Osokoya, the Chairman, Ogun State Civil Service Commission, has said that any worker who fails the ongoing 2010 promotion examinations will pay for a re-sit.

Osokoya told newsmen in Abeokuta recently that the 2010 promotion examination for the state’s workers had started at the Civil Service Commission, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, last week.

He explained that the yearly exercise was necessary to uphold merit and professionalism as well as improve the reading culture of officers with a view to enhancing their productivity.

The chairman said that the ongoing exercise was designed to test the knowledge of the workers in the areas of managing a bureaucracy and setting agenda for the future.

Other areas to be covered in the promotion examination were the civil service rules and financial regulations with identified chapters specified for each category of officers, Osokoya said.

He emphasised that the written examination would account for 50 per cent of the total mark, while oral interview and the Annual Evaluation Performance Report (APER) would account for 50 per cent.

The chairman noted that the failure rate in the examination had been minimal in the past.

Osokoya said that the exercise was in line with the policy of the current administration to conduct promotion examinations for the state civil servants as at when due.