The
Secretary General at the Office of the President, Dawda Fadera, has said the
new government is working on “general discipline in the public service”.
He
made this remark during an interview with journalists at his office at the
Kairaba Beach Hotel yesterday.
SG
Fadera said general discipline would include people going to work on time, and
that indiscipline in the public service is not going to be tolerated.
“All
avenues will be taken to make sure that anyone found wanting in that area, the
law will take its full course.”
He
added that they held a meeting for the first time with head of various
departments, both in the civil service and public service, where he shared with
them the new vision of the President relating to the management of the public
service in the new dispensation.
“President
Barrow and his government are committed to transparency and accountability as a
government, and he has asked me to call all the heads of department to make
sure this key pillar is applied in all the interactions.”
According
to SG Fadera, the President does not want sectors to micro manage, saying they
also agreed to strengthen the oversized institutions in government like the
National Audit Office, the Internal Audit System, management boards of public
enterprises and public service commission and the PMO because “all these
institutions are oversized ones” and they need to be regulated because they
would need proper audit and timely audit.
“We
want sectors to take charge of their institutions, because heads of any
institution will have adequate instruments at your disposal; so you need to
apply those to ensure that order and decorum exist in the office settings.”
