As part of the reform agenda of the Ondo State Government to reposition the State Civil Service for excellent service delivery and make bureaucratic processes less cumbersome, the state government would soon commence automated system of processing documents of Pensioners for their retirement benefits.
To this effect, the State Information Technology Agency has developed a computerised system that would electronically capture pensioners and process their documents online for easy and quick reception of their benefits.
Presenting the design to the Pension Reform Committee at the office of the Head of Service in Akure, the Director of Software in the State Information Technology Agency, Mrs Bola Oyebode said the process would allow for interface with each of the retirees at the point of exit from service for capturing and collation of their data.
Mrs Oyebode noted that instead of the usual manual process of obtaining various documents from different Ministries, Agencies and Departments of government for approval, the documents would be automated and uploaded to a preferred server for assessment by relevant government officials, adding that the process would lessen the burden of Pensioners and reduce movement of documents from one place to another.
In his remarks, Ondo State Head of Service, Mr Dare Aragbaiye commended the Agency for the innovation which he said would enhance easy access to Pensioners records, eradicate fraud in the pension office and put an end to the activities of the syndicate that exploits Pensioners by collecting certain percentage of their benefit to process their retirement benefits.
He added that with the system, Pensioners’ data could easily be collated, arranged, processed and retrieved while falsification of documents would be difficult to perpetrate.
Also speaking on the issue, the Administrative Secretary of the State Public Service Reform Office, Mr Oluwagbenga Akingbesote said the Committee has reduced the documents to be submitted by retirees for the process of their retirement benefits from about 30 to 16.
The Permanent Secretary of the Pension Transition Department, Mr Tope Kolawole and his counterpart in the Local Government Pension Transition Department, Dr. Bunmi Eniaiyewu, who was represented by the Director of Local Government Pension, Mr Gbenga Tolulope presented the report to the Committee.
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