Our civil service bloated

EDITOR - Let’s concentrate on production through luring investors both domestic and FDI.

There is a lot of duplication amongst some ministries. Surely we don’t need Ministry of Youth, Indigenisation, Ministers of State and the deputy ministers.

On the deputy ministers if the minister is incapacitated, or on leave, or out on duty we have the permanent secretary who happens to be the driver of the ministry. He/she will continue with the duty till the minister is back on duty or a new one appointed.

In ZRP, surely why have deputy commissioners and senior assistant commissioners.

We can do with a Commissioner-General of Police, two deputies and assistant commissioners responsible for operations, human resources, finance, traffic, quartermaster and logistics. Sections such as Anti-Riot, Police Protection Unit, Commercial Crimes and all will fall under operations.

Why have district administrators when we have CEOs for rural district councils?

Also, all public auditors should fall under the Auditor and Comptroller-General’s Office. Why duplicate by having each ministry with its own internal auditors?

Qualified personnel like engineers and medical personnel in the army can also be deployed to work in hospitals and other Government departments.

We are not in a war so let us utilise personnel in the army for community development programmes.

The personnel will already be on payroll hence the Government won’t hire/ employ again.

We need a few intelligence officers to be stationed in the offices. The rest should be deployed. For example, those with qualifications as nurses should be in hospitals, teachers in schools and so on so that they gather intelligence there while also contributing to development.

Anon.