The Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Ibrahim Dasuki-Arabi, on Friday, said in a bid to reduce deaths among retirees, the Federal Government thought it is expedient to keep them busy through training on self-reliance.
Dasuki-Arabi made this disclosure in Gombe at the end of the 2024 pre-retirement training programme for retired/retiring officers of selected federal parastatals for the North-East region.
Speaking on the five-day training, Dasuki-Arabi emphasised its importance, noting that the high mortality rate among retirees gave rise to the training.
He said, “It’s very important because it is among the eight priority areas of the President and Commander-in-Chief. How do you engage citizens, get value out of them, and how do we support them to give value back to society after they have exited service? After our survey, we observed that the mortality rate is very high among people who retire from service. This initiative is among those that we have come up with so that people will learn one or two skills as they exit the service.
