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Since GE14, we have seen more and more cases of political patronage in state institutions.

Works Minister Baru Bian has just appointed PKR vice-president Tian Chua as his “special adviser”.# Is Tian Chua working on a voluntary basis, the same way Tony Pua has claimed he is working as a “personal assistant” to the finance minister?

# If taxpayers are paying for the post of “special adviser”, does it mean that every other minister in the Cabinet has the privilege of employing party leaders in these positions? Such appointments at the national, state and local levels of government are used to reward the people — including NGO activists — who help them win and maintain them in office and to build strength within their respective parties.

Thus, without hiring/appointing personnel on the basis of merit, such placements ensure that society as a whole suffers just like Malaysia has suffered all these years. The 1997 World Development Report emphasised the important link between appointments based on merit and enhanced bureaucratic capability.

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