FG To Assess Mdas Through Website Ranking — DG, BSPR – TheNigerialawyer

The Federal Government has developed a scorecard for the ranking
of websites of s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), to
help in rebranding public service.

The Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR),
Mr Dasuki Arabi, made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen
in Abuja.

Arabi said that the main objective of the ranking was to open
government to the citizens by providing information going by the
evolution and current trend of information dissemination
worldwide.

He said the idea was in line with the Executive Order on “Ease
of Doing Business” and Open Government Partnership commitment of
the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

“The media system is changing; websites are becoming very
important and they have taken over what we do manually as the link
of mam-to-man is being cut off.

“If you are looking for anything now, just go to the website. We
need to encourage our website administrators to work and that is
why the scorecard came on board.

“Basically, the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) was
created in 2004 to serve as the engine room for reforms at the
federal level and as I said, we monitor, we initiate, we inform and
we also evaluate reform activities in every facet of government at
the federal level,” Arabi said.

According to him, the reform and rebranding process in the
public service will be holistic as it will affect different areas
of governance.

He said BPSR was already working with the Advertising
Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) to lead the rebranding
process.

“We are working with the Advertising Practitioners Council of
Nigeria (APCON) to lead the rebranding process again and the
rebranding we are looking at is not only looking at information
management but rebranding the entire service.

“We report to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation
(SGF) and we have a steering committee on reforms that is chaired
by the SGF and deputised by the Head of Civil Service of the
Federation.

“Permanent Secretaries of key agencies of government, including
the chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission, National Assembly
Service Commission and the National Judicial Service Commission
(are members) so that other arms of government could be carried
along in this process.

“We are talking about Public Service, not Civil Service
reforms,” he added.

Arabi said BSPR had been positioned with key values of
integrity, leadership, external awareness, result-driven and
creativity to ensure it achieved a good system within any
government establishment.

He said the Federal Executive Council (FEC) had received a
working document on National Strategy on Public Service Reforms for
approval to help give direction to the rebranding process.

“We hope to make the best use of the technology available to us
to drive awareness, inform Nigerians and improve on patriotism if
there is any if there is none, then, we encourage that.

“Before BPSR came on board, there were pockets of reforms in
various sectors of government and one of the reasons we came was to
put all these things together to have a one-stop-shop for
everything about reforms.

“When we came, we developed a document on National Strategy on
Public Service Reforms which is a coordinating document to put
together all aspect around reforms in every sector of
government.

“The document came on board since 2007 and we are glad to say
that more than 75 per cent of the aspirations of the Public Service
Reforms have been implemented, though it has not been passed by the
Federal Executive Council (FEC), we are glad to inform you that the
SGF has approved its adoption.

“It has gone to the cabinet secretariat and we hope that the
next sitting of the current cabinet will see it approved; but
whether it is approved or not approved, it is a working document
and Nigerians need to know that we have this,” Arabi said.

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