Lakes State’s Minister Decry Corruption In Employment Procedures Lakes State Minister of Labour and Public Services, Hon. Marina Martin Legge has challenges over government institutions that don’t follow the right procedures of public services in the State. 18 May 2011 Lakes State’s Minister Decry Corruption In Employment Procedures Lakes State Minister of Labor & Public Services Hon. Marina Martin Legge [©Gurtong]
By Manyang Mayom RUMBEK, 17th May, 2011 [Gurtong] - Lakes State Minister of Labour and Public Services, Hon. Marina Martin Legge has challenges over government institutions that don’t follow the right procedures of public services in the State. Hon. Marina said that various Lakes State Ministries and institutions were not adhering to the right process of public services in recruiting new staffs and procedures of dismissing insubordinate staffs. “The Labour and Public Services Ministry carried out a survey recently, checking employee’s files from all the Ministries of Lakes State to establish employment history,” said Legge and added that, “the established committee noted that most of employees were paid very little while others had no files in their respective institutions.” The exercise was for the Labour Ministry’s human resources development knowledge to assess the status of each employee in Lakes State. The exercise was also to fulfil some of the Ministry objectives as a final report is to be released soon for transparency and accountability. “The government is now putting up policies that will regulate the employment of government officials through a modality portraying competency, hence, prevents nepotism and corruption in the State,” she revealed. After the audit exercise, the committee will list all the employees with files and those without would have to present their professional credentials for employment. All verified files with verity stamp by public services team will be locked up at the Ministry of Public Services with serious monitoring. Marina justified her statement saying that all staffs screened by the Public Services will be served without random dismissal by their bosses. “Firing of staffs has become a common culture in the Lakes State system over minor issues that cannot facilitate dismissal of a civil servant. She explained that, when someone employs you, you have to start in the first segment and then after a confidential report from your director general or from your directorate, then you’re entitled to a promotion. The Minister affirmed that Lakes State still lags behind in such key human resource procedures and need be enforced in the various institution and Ministries. “In our State, whenever somebody is appointed, the employee is accorded segment four unprocedurally.” Marina confessed and continued that, “there are promotions in their respective institutions without consultation from the public service and that is not the right procedure.” “There are a good number of employees in the Ministries who are paid through local revenues and are not reflected in nominal roll also, this means we are not following Public Services procedures,” Marina noted. The Minister also noted with concern that, “there has been no new recruits to government offices since 2006 but an indication of salary increment to the current staff speaks volume. This employment anomaly is hell to the State employees." Posted in: Home, Governance Comments RSS comment feed There are currently no comments, be the first to post one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
