The failure of development planning in Nigeria has become too obvious for us not to have learnt the lesson. But the sad fact is that the public service is not attracting the best that the tertiary institutions can produce. The second dimension of reforming the public service system involves articulating a framework and dynamics of attitudinal and culture change. This attitudinal change goes to the very idea of who a public servant is and what public service entails. In the final analysis, the citizenry is the focal point of development planning and the national rebirth and reformation of the state.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2020 03:45 UTC