Shuffling of civil servants
Delwar Jahid, Research Fellow, St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba, Canada
The politicisation and subsequent removal or frequent shuffling of civil servants are going to have a serious impact on our civil administration. Big business - especially multinationals - is going to exploit the resulting vacuum of able civil servants. The residual sub-standard cadre is going to be no match for the devious strategies of the well-trained multinational executives. These executives will extract undue favours with lasting deleterious impact on our already poor revenue generation stream in exchange of promises to provide employment to civil servants' relatives or, even worse, invitations to cocktails for free drinks. Such cases are rampant. However, they are done in such a style that the special favours extracted by the multinationals never surface. More importantly, these misdeeds of gigantic proportions, mostly in the form of various tax benefits, are camouflaged by widely publicized corporate social responsibility projects of limited impact on society. This makes it very hard for the civil servants to believe that the noble multinationals can be up to such deception. I would, therefore, sincerely request the civil service to be ever vigilant against any such evil designs by the multinationals during this transitional period.
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