The Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has proffered measures that could be adopted for a gainful retirement after service.
Olaopa spoke at a senior citizens’ summit organised by the High-Tech Centre for Women & Youths (HTCNWY) in Abuja on Thursday.
Giving the keynote address at the programme with thetheme “Upskilling Seniors in Cottage Technologies for Sustainable Development & Energize Commercialisation Now”, Olaopa said thatthe event resonated with him, being a senior citizen himself and given his experience of sudden retirement at the top level of the civil service after 30 years.
He said that the experience taught him the lesson of the need for proper preparation for transition to retirement life or, better still, gainful post-retirement endeavours.
Olaopa who was represented on the occasion by his Technical Special Assistant, Mr Chike Ogbechie, said that one of the areas of interest in his quest for reforms in the public service was that the wealth of talent, knowledge and capacities left in public servants are kept dormant and thus wasted in retirement.
