BPSR DG
Dasuki Arabi
NEXT
BPSR DG
Dasuki Arabi
NEXT Level: BPSR Harps on Policy Reforms, Government’s
Programmes
As the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari commenced
its Next-Level tenure, the need for successful implementation of
government policies and programmes have become imperative,
considering the numerous socio-economic challenges confronting the
country at the moment, Mr. Dasuki Ibrahim Arabi has said.
Arabi, who is the Director-General of Bureau of Public Service
Reforms (BPSR), added that for the government to achieve this noble
objective, it has to reform several sectors of our economy, as well
introduce other relevant programmes whose goals and objectives the
citizens must understand for their buy-in and support.
“As the government takes several steps towards lifting millions
of our citizens out of poverty, ensuring food sufficiency and
improving on our infrastructural developments, amidst dwindling
revenue and security challenges, the need for reforms in several
sectors, as well as the introduction of new policies and programmes
become inevitable,” the BPSR boss explained.
He spoke during a one-day training of information officers on
reporting reforms in public service in Abuja.
The DG said the training programme is aimed at empowering
Information Officers for effective reporting on reforms in public
services.
“The Bureau of Public Service Reform is saddled with the mandate
to initiate, coordinate, monitor and ensure full implementation of
government policies and programmers. It is therefore in furtherance
of realizing the objective that the Bureau has found out it is
necessary to organize this training, considering the relevance of
information officers in the prompt, accurate reportage,
interpretation, analysis and dissemination of government policies,
programmes and activities, as well as informed feedback mechanism
to government,” Arabi added.
According to the BPSR helmsman, information channels and
platforms have become so nebulous that government cannot afford to
be reactive all the time, maintaining that government itself ought
to be the chief driver in the information ecosystem, if naysayers
are not to misinform and mislead the general public on government’s
objectives and purpose for designing and implementing
programmes.
He said: “To forestall this avoidable scenario, government
expects you, as Information Managers, to be fully equipped for
effective information management, especially, in this era of fake
news, tilted and slanted news analysis and outright falsehood,
rampant in the ubiquitous social media”.