Letters in brief

Pastors’ pay: A report in The National last month on the call for Lutheran pastors to go on the church’s payroll is the wrong avenue for this issue to be discussed. The organising committee of the 12th Lutheran Pastors’ Conference to be held in Kewamugl Lutheran Church should not discuss in this in the media. The issue is something that will be discussed as an agenda in the gathering and should be reported after the conference. The main agenda at the conference will be whether to put all pastors on the payroll.

Songun Walip Talu,
Banz

Music warning: Dear songwriters, singers, producers and so forth, for your information, music is so powerful that it can affect individuals. So be smart. Make a living out of your career and talent but consider our poor and immature people when writing your songs. Your music can either help or destroy an individual – mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Be a change agent and help our simple people grow and develop.

Basa –
Kumul
Senior appointments: I refer to a statement released by the Public Service Minister on the recent Supreme Court decision to nullify the creation of the Ministerial Executive Appointments Committee (MEAC) through the amendment of the Public Service Management Act as unconstitutional and invalid. It is a welcome news to restore the credibility of the merit-based short-listing of applicants for departmental heads through the Public Service Commission. MEAC once appointed a fifth and last-ranking junior officer to head a national department because he had a relative inside MEAC. Within 20 months the appointee had disgraced himself.
As they say, your sins will find you out.

GS Observer