The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has vowed to prioritise workers welfare and capacity building for all categories of civil servants across the country.
The president of the group, Comrade Shehu Muhammed, who gave this assurance said, such a step will enable them to surmount the current economic realities.
He also charged the federal government to re-strategise its policies to accommodate productivity to enable the country overcome the forex crisis which has been so, because Nigeria has not been producing export-oriented products that can develop internal and external trade to the nation’s advantage.
“There is a need for the stability of Naira. We need to look inwards for growth and development of the economy rather than over-dependent on importation to checkmate the foreign exchange. We need not be at the mercy of other countries by importation of all products,” he said.
Muhammed, who made this known in Lagos this week, described the era of use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a great challenge which Nigerian workers must brace up with, to avoid being stranded at a particular stage or being rendered irrelevant due to application of AI.
Reeling out his plans for the association, Muhammed said, his ambition is to make civil service workers a shining example in adopting technological innovation as a tool for advancement for all. Moreover, he said, since civil servants’ welfare is paramount in the country, he said it was now the time to start rolling out a number of palliative measures to cushion the effects of the economic downturn.
“As ASCSN President together with the executive, we shall consolidate on the past achievements of my predecessor by pursuing training and retraining of civil servants to make them relevant to the current challenge of AI. We will address inflation,” he stressed.
