Walk talk on public service delivery

 THE Prime Minister is not the first one to say that the PNG public service needs to be trimmed. Bart Philemon said it when he was Public service minister and nothing got done. Puka Temu said it and has not done anything about it to date.

I have a few suggestions for the Prime Minister to trim down the public sector.

1. Employ more teachers and health workers. They are the only public servants that truly earn their salaries.

2. Privatise all the other sectors beginning with agriculture and livestock. These officers do absolutely nothing running farms and paddocks inside their offices while farmers just do not get the extension services.

3. Stop empl0ying unqualified relatives. In Morobe we have very important offices held by relatives who have made their way up from being filing clerks, while UPNG graduates cannot find employment.

4. Stop all internal advertisements and let all vacancies go out to the public and engage consultants to carry out interviews.

5. Stop all forms of political interference in appointments of all department secretaries and chief executive officers of all state entities

6. Partner with donor agencies organisations to search for young talents in our universities and pick out the best and train and groom them in the same way that many private sector organisations are doing.

We are starving for efficient and effective service delivery by the public service .

Manning Forepe

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