The Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission ( FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has urged support for development and policy institutes in the country.
Olaopa made the appeal when the President of the Chartered Institute of Development Studies and Administration of Nigeria ( CIDSA) , Dr Elijah O. Ogbuokiri , led a delegation of the institute to his office in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to him, such support has become necessary to break the trend of government depending on foreign policy bodies . He specifically decried a situation where in most cases, the most quoted statistics on development issues in Nigeria are from foreign institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund .
Olaopa described CIDSAN as a relevant multi-disciplinary body concerned with policy and administration.
According to Olaopa, the institute is relevant in light of his experience as a bureaucrat in 27 years in the federal civil service where he was involved in strategic policy making and leading public and education reforms.
