PERMANENT Secretaries (PSs) and their deputies have been urged to use their professionalism and positions to supervise their subordinates and reprimand them on wrongdoing, including favouritism and discrimination in providing services.
Minister of State in the President’s Office (Public Service
Management and Good Governance), Angela Kairuki (pictured), made the
call in Dar es Salaam on Sunday during the opening of training on ethics
for public servants under permanent secretaries and deputy permanent
secretaries.
She said ensuring integrity and maintaining the code of conduct
among people was a hard task with many challenges, thus it needed
cooperation to reduce destruction of ethics.
“You will agree with me that destruction of ethic is not a problem
among public servants only, but it has penetrated into different areas
in our society. As a result, it’s important to utilise this training on
how to combat such destruction and cooperate to maintain ethics,” she
noted.
She said implementation of laws was a sign of good ethics and
called upon all members of the community to cooperate in building
ethics, starting at the family level up to the national level.
Kairuki stressed the importance of filling the integrity pledge
document, saying it provide guidelines for PSs on self evaluation and
self assessment as a way of building the culture of respecting ethics.
Chief Secretary Ambassador John Kijazi reminded public servants to work
under the guidance of the integrity pledge document which they signed
soon after being sworn in as Permanent Secretaries.
“Let the integrity pledge document be your direction and guidance in implementing your duties,” he said.
He said the government would continue to take action against public
leaders who abused their positions for their personal interests,
including owning properties illegally.
The Chief Secretary said the government was ready to make laws or
amend existing ones to plug loopholes which were causing weaknesses.
Recently, President John Magufuli forced the newly appointed PSs in
his government to sign an integrity commitment warrant before leaving
the State House where the function took place.
“If there is anyone who feels that they cannot work under the
integrity commitment, they should excuse themselves and vacate the State
House premises right now,” said Magufuli on the podium immediately
after swearing in the new executives.
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