BY WATIPASO MZUNGU JNR
Information and Civic Education Minister Patricia Kaliati has deplored the tendency of some civil servants who offer jobs to their children and relatives saying the behaviour brings inefficiency in many government departments.
Kaliati noted that such employees do not perform their duties with seriousness and sometimes offer substandard services, which costs the government of hard-earned resources and money.
She was speaking at Lakeside Hotel in Salima on Wednesday where she closed a five-day workshop on Strategic Planning for the Department of Information Systems and Technology Management Services, popularly known as DISTMS.
“You’re well equipped with all resources needed, but you don’t deliver. Why? If you are failing to perform, why don’t you bring in new people who can offer the services we’re looking for? Is it because you want your sons and daughters to graduate first so that you can employ them?” asked Kaliati.
“That is why we don’t have quality services in the department (DISTMS),” she concluded.
Kaliati also deplored the behaviour of holding workshops frequently whose profit or benefit to the nation does not come saying it was a waste of government resources because the workshops do not benefit the poor at the grassroots’ level.
“Government knows there are some people who are very interested in workshops in Salima, Mangochi and other places. The reason for such workshops is to claim allowances with which you can supplement your budgets. But that is wrong because you are just draining government of its resources without coming up with tangible development.
“People in the village are looking for the services, not unending strategic planning workshops every mid month just because you are broke and you think workshops are where you can get extra money for supplementing your budgets,” she schooled.
Kaliati challenged the Acting Director of DISTMS Grant Lupiya to take ICT to the rural masses saying every Malawian has a right to communicate.
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