Twice in two months , the National Assembly management under the Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Sani Magaji Tambawal has not only prioritised capacity building, but technologically driven and automation along with digitization so as to consign the psyche of staff of the National Assembly to modern technology.
Since technology advancement is the demands of the 21st century, the management of the National Assembly has developed the template of ensuring staffers from the intermediate level to the top echelon, developed the skill of application of the new order into their activities.
This prompted the three days training for Legislative Aides of the 109 Senators and 360 Members of the House of Representatives held in July with a view to rebuilding and refocusing the capacity to assist federal lawmakers into executing myriads of their programs.
The theme of this year’s training was “Building the Capacity and enhancing the Performance of Legislative Aides” to enhance optimum performance.
The programs which ranges from plenary, oversights, adhoc and constituency projects among many others will desire the input of the legislative aides attached to them to offset their schedules.
The three day event under the auspices of the Clerk to the National Assembly CNA was geared to reposition and improve the capacity of deployment of needed skills and modest way of tackling the multifarious activities of the federal lawmakers and their interactions with counterparts across the globe.
The event took the legislative aides through various ways of training and retraining geared towards uplifting the capacity to deliver on the job by the legislative aides, so as to improve the prowess of the Lawmakers.
While emphasizing on the continuous inculcation of needed capacity and skills to staff of the National Assembly, the Clerk emphasized the need to justify the huge investment on them .
Tambuwal spoke on Monday at opening ceremony of a four-day capacity building training for staff of the National Assembly on: Re-orientation for improved productivity and effective service delivery held on Monday
– Thursday , August, 2024.
He highlighted the importance of training and retraining in today’s fast-paced work environment, citing the National Assembly’s need to be at the forefront of modernization, transparency, and accountability.
While noting that in 2023, the National Assembly management trained 3,990 staff members, and this year’s program focuses on re-orientation for improved productivity and effective service delivery.
The CNA, Sani Magaji Tambawal emphasized the need for staff to stay up-to-date with industry trends and expand their career opportunities to drive innovation and success.
The program billed to train an initial 390 staffs in the intermediate level of 10-14 will be expected to go round with a view to inculcating modern technology to trigger extraordinary productivity in the service.
While agreeing to continuous training and retraining of staffers , he reiterated that the National Assembly were already trained a good number of staff in 2023, as more will be trained before the end of the year.
*YUSUF writes from Abuja he can be reached on [email protected].
