Few days ago Legal Luminary, Chief Afe Babalola, gave reasons why he turned down ministerial appointments twice. He was specific in pointing out his reasons which where the facts that;
- One, I cannot work with the present type of civil servants in this country. The civil servants are the problems in this country. None of them can work the way I work. I will create instant enemies if I had accepted to be a minister.
- The second reason is that my clients are so many. They protested and felt I would be disappointing them if I accepted to be a minister.
“It is true that there is a problem but everybody cannot run away from trying to fix it.” Akashat Nyma-Zibiri, a host on TVC’s chat fest show, Your View stated while commenting on the hot topic discussed.
“We need to put the system back in check, but who will if everybody says they can’t work with the set of people in office? It is true that there is a problem but everybody cannot run away from trying to fix it.” She said
The ladies established the fact that the major problem is inefficiency in the civil service sector. This connects with one of Afe Babalola’s reason for not taking the ministerial job he was appointed to do.
“I cannot work with the present type of civil servants in this country. The civil servants are the problems in this country. None of them can work the way I work. I will create instant enemies if I had accepted to be a minister,” he said.
This issue of inefficiency, is it a problem on the part of the workers or that of leadership?
“I think we need to find solutions – technological solutions to make their lives easier. Civil servants are used to the old way of just pushing papers and pushing files over and over that makes work difficult, and even for citizens who want to get things done.”
Nyma and Morayo came to an agreement that the system needs to get leadership right, in order to deal with the issue of inefficiency in the civil sector.
Mariam stated that “Asides inefficiency, there are people there who still try to find shortcuts to carrying out their jobs. They feel like they can’t be removed from their positions. Hence, corruption comes into play which drastic measures should be taken to curb out corruption.”
Tope highlighted the fact that as long as we don’t prioritize meritocracy at every level, we would have problems, “whosoever is brought to head a department should be based on merit.”
Tope went on stating that ‘Jobs and positions in the civil service should be based on merit, else we are on a long thing and we have a long way to go! We need a clean system, not one where the leader is always imposing.’
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