YOURSAY | ‘Trust deficit or not, Harapan still needs to clean up the civil service.’
Former Council of Eminent Persons chairperson Daim Zainuddin says that the Pakatan Harapan administration must learn to start trusting the civil service for the sake of its own longevity amid Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s earlier claim of sabotage.
Regardless, overstaffing sometimes produces bottlenecks and inefficiencies. That will take time to resolve. Be gentle, sensitive and kind to them. In time, they will respond positively.Mahathir was only referring to some civil servants out to sabotage the Harapan government, not all of them. At present, they are still watching whether the Harapan government will last. The ‘realignment’ or transfer of allegiance will start slowly, and if Harapan is still in power after the 15th general election, the higher echelon will quicken the pace to adapt to the ‘new master’ as they are career civil servants.The civil servants want the new government or ministers to trust them but on their own terms.
Harapan’s biggest mistake is this juggling act of trying to please everyone. It will surely end in failure. Just like the matriculation issues – increasing the overall numbers to solve the problem was a big mistake.Do we really expect Malaysia to be rescued from the corruption of the BN government when an entire population has been trained to look forward to freebies?
Sure, it's a legacy problem, created by Umno who thought, like Thanos, that they would rule the Bolehland universe in perpetuity.
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