Civil Servants Fete Mrs Anucha

The former Head of Service, Mrs
Esther Anucha says she left a better civil service than she met and attributed
it to the series of reforms evolved during her five years tenure.

Speaking during a sendforth ceremony organised in her
honour by civil servants of Etche origin in Port Harcourt, last Friday, Mrs
Anucha said that the Rivers State Civil Service is now better organised.

She listed some of the reforms that have improved the
service to include the introduction of a biometric exercise which has helped to
check the incidence of ghost workers in the service, the introduction of
diploma programme at the Civil service training centre as well as the yearly
thanksgiving service for civil servants in the state.

The former Head of Service also said that, the
introduction of the Civil service Bureacrat Magazine was to allow civil
servants to tell their own story, while sporting activities were encouraged
through the inter Ministerial football and athletic competitions.

Mrs Anucha also said that her five years as head of
service also withnessed industrial peace as no drum was rolled out by civil
servants in the state to protest condition of service.

She however stressed the need for more discipline and
hardwork by civil servants as it is the only way of getting to the peak of their
career.

Anucha thanked civil servants of Etche for organizing
the ceremony and expressed the hope that the occasion will further unite them.

Also speaking, the Chairman of the occasion, Sir George
Nwankwo said that the Etche ethnic nationality was proud of Mrs Esther Anucha
as she had brought honour to the ethnic group.

Sir Nwankwo who was a former Permanent Secretary in the
State also charged the Civil Servants to be good Ambassadors of Etche and the
entire  State.