The expectant public service needs a hand of a birth attendant

Dear judge Mbadwa,

I don’t want to talk much about the capability of a new broom in sweeping a room clean, but there is hope in Nyasaland’s new Secretary to the President and Cabinet.

Zambika’s work philosophy is thus far admirable in the fashion of a birth attendant whose attention to detail significantly contributes to reduction of neonatal deaths. But I digressed, my lord.

From what we have seen so far, it is, therefore, no longer business as usual at Capital Hill with her at the helm of the public service.

Of course there are some voices of dissent within the civil service who are not happy about the ban of outside duty station meetings because they were direct beneficiaries of that system.

My lord, these naysayers claim that you touch the civil service at your own peril, meaning unpleasant cultures have to be perpetuated at all cost.

It is this kind that puts spanners into the works of change agents because they want to maintain the status quo.

But as catalysts of a change management process operate, the likes of Zambika are quite aware of the risks involved in bringing a revolution to a conservative behemoth.

Well, if the outside duty stations meetings provided extra income to poorly paid public servants, then a way has to be found to motivate the hard working ones.

Conventional wisdom, my lord, tells us that you have to lose something to gain something; hence, it is impossible to implement a Tokha Are Liars blueprint through a civil service whose work ethic still operates from foundations of the era of Chairman of the Yellow Party.

Now talking about a birth attendant stopping neonatal deaths of projects in the civil service, we have learnt,My Lord, that infant killers called project implementation units (PIUs) have been sitting on projects worth about $340 million (about K345.4 billion) for no explainable reasons.

My lord, we know for a fact that responsible officers sit on a donor-funded project when they realise that there isn’t much they are going to benefit from it in terms of kickbacks in the tendering and procurement process.

Zambika has her work cut out for her starting with the PIUs. My lord, these are enemies of development that ought to be disciplined forth with.

Those who still maintain that the cancerous cells of abuse in the civil service have developed the irreversible sepsis should be worried that Zambika will finally amputate those affected parts.

I dare repeat; in this kind of management, you don’t let the tare grow with the wheat as in the biblical parable because the Tokha Are Liars has only five years to deliver on the promises they made to the electorate,

Regards,

John Citizen.

With Emmanuel Luciano

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