***** Lilongwe****** Mutharika gives Civil Services Reform Committee 180 days to report President Prof Peter Mutharika has given the newly appointed Civil Services and Public Services Reform Committee 90 – 180 days to report on progress made in the revamping of the Civil and Public Services. Mutharika made the call on Monday in Lilongwe upon the swearing in of five of the eight members of the newly appointed Civil Services and Public Services Reform Committee. He started by making a clarification that he had appointed his Vice, Saulos Chilima, Chairperson of the Committee and not Minister of Civil Service as announced earlier by the Office of the President and Cabinet on the list of new cabinet ministers. “Civil service remains under the OPC,” explained Mutharika. “But I have appointed Mr. Saulos Chilima to chair this committee which is extremely important because world over, no country can survive without a civil service that is vibrant. “I expect you to carry out a complete overhaul of our civil service and I am giving you 90 – 180 days, which is 3 – 6 months, to report on the progress.” Mutharika bemoaned the collapse of civil services in the country which he said was characterized by the plundering and looting of public resources at the Capital Hill. “At one time Malawi’s civil service was the best in Africa but that glory is no longer there,” said Mutharika, and he continued, “It is now the responsibility of this committee to find means of putting things in order within the given period because we are in a hurry and we do not have time to waste: I expect the Committee to hit the ground running.” The Civil Services and Public Services Reform Committee members who took oath on Monday were Thom Mpinganjira, Khrishna Savjani SC, Seodi White, Evelyn Mwapatsa, and Rev. Howard Matiya Nkhoma. Two more members, Prof. Peter Mwanza and Bright Mangulama, are yet to take oath as they did not turn up due to what Clerk to the Cabinet, Ernest Kantchentche, described as logistical problems. President Mutharika said he had deliberately drawn members of the Committee from all sectors of the public namely, the clergy, civil society, private sector and the legal sector so as to have a broad approach to the overhauling of the civil service. Speaking to journalists later after the swearing-in of the Committee, the Chairperson and Vice President, Saulosi Chilima, said the Committee would strive to achieve an effective civil service within the prescribed time. “We have very competent and qualified personnel in the civil service all we need to do is just to put in place the proper mechanism to turn the civil service active and responsible – and this we will do,” said Chilima. He said the Committee would also consider the issue of remuneration among other incentives aimed at reforming the civil service.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:04:09 +0000
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