The Federal Government says it will create a portal designed to engage older people who wish to continue working after retirement.
The Director-General of the National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC), Emem Omokaro said this at a collaborative meeting with relevant government agencies and stakeholders on service level in Abuja on Wednesday.
Omokaro said,
“The aim of the collaboration is also to assist the centre to create an online portal that would engage older persons who are professionals in their different fields of endeavour to tap into their wealth of experiences,”
“This is a gathering of service-level collaborators on continuing engagement bureau projects, continuing engagement means that we are disrupting retirements.”
“We are creating platforms and tools. We are creating spaces for older persons who wish to continue to engage and have the opportunities to do so. You know, older persons have a right to contribute in any area they so wish, and they also have a right to access the labour market after retirement, not necessarily that they are to be employed by the government.” she added
She explained that the federal government believes that older people have a lot of talent, potential, expertise and skills and have come up with the platforms to give opportunities to retired of civil servants at the federal state to local government levels.
“We have built our portal because we need all the data that we need to have, whether you retired from the federal civil service, state or local governments level. We are creating these platforms, and we are also identifying agencies that we need at this service level,” Ms Emem explained.
According to her,the programme “is really mobilising our older people because we want to show the wealth that Nigeria has, and our approach is we are positioning NSCC to create wealth.”
She said the portal would be operational in April 2023.
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Redeployment of seniors citizens back to civil service is unprecedented, given the experience they have and wisdom.
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