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Any senior civil servant from grade level ten and above in the
Ondo State Civil Service who lacks adequate computer skills will be shown the
way out of service, the state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget,
Akin Adaramola, said in Akure on Monday.

Mr. Adaramola, who spoke at a four-day training programme on
information software at Igbara-Oke, Ifedore local government area of the state,
said because the world has been turned to a global village, civil servants in
the state must be computer literate to keep their jobs.

“Graduates with PHD, BSC, and HND without having any computer
knowledge should be ranked among illiterates,” he said.

He noted that for quick implementation of budget and development
in all sectors, government needs more computer literates in its ministries and
parastatals.

The workshop was organised by the state government in
collaboration with United Nations International Children’s Fund [UNICEF]. The
commissioner said graduates without good knowledge of the computer for day to
day office jobs are living in ‘fools paradise.’

“It is highly disappointing that some civil servants from grade
level ten and above cannot operate a computer. As government, we will no longer
tolerate such attitude from workers.

“The basic level of computer needs to be introduced to students
from primary schools, so that when they grow up, it would not be strange to
them,” he said.

Data for planning

Mr. Adaramola said the present government in the state strongly
believes in the importance of data for effective planning, hence the need for
its workers to be ICT compliant.

He also explained that in order to encourage its workforce on
the use of computer, the state government has introduced a system whereby all
information about the activities of the government will be sent to ministries
through email.

Mr. Adaramola assured that before the end of this year, the
state would prepare its database.