C' River to Prioritise Workers Training for Effective, Affective Service Delivery.l, says AG
The Government of Cross River says it will in coming year prioritise training of its workforce for effective and affective service delivery.
The State Accountant General, Dr Glory Effiong who made the disclosure in Calabar on Friday at the end of a five-day training programme on "Forensic Analysis and Data Mining, said the training becomes important in order to equipped the workforce on the new trend of conducting government business.
According to her, "conducting government activities is no longer business as usual; government transaction is no longer treated it use to be. We must move with the tide.
"We need to move from where we are to where the world is going.
"The governor understands this and he is passionate about training and retraining of workers even with the limited resources available."
She urged the staff to braze up for the transition that is to come if they must remain relevant at what they do.
"To you the workers, we will drag you along if we have to; you must run along with our plans for Cross River. The journey had only just began.
"Series of trainings are to come up as we identify the needs for it," she stated.
The Accountant General had attributed the challenges facing payment of gratuity to retirees in the state to lack of poor record keeping acasioned by lack of training of the workforce.
To this, Dr Damilola Fagboro, Director, International Academy of Forensic (IAF) has asserted that the use of forensic analysis will help Cross River in efficient gratuity payments.
Fagboro who trained the workers of the Accountant General office on forensic analysis and data mining, said the use of biometric forensics would have seamlessly solved the problem of gratuities payment in the state if it was used.
"With biometric forensics, the fingerprint, face, the day the gratuity was paid, the bank it was paid into and even if the person who should claim the gratuity is late, it would all be sorted.
"When forensics is institutionalised, no one will have the confidence to come back for another gratuity when he had collected once," he said.
