One of the public service tragedies is that many qualified fellow Sudanese who tend not to polish the apple are faced with malicious dismissal and replacement by persons connected or loyal to those on top.
Such practice has become a commonplace in most of state institutions with hundreds of professionals who are staying idle after being marginalized for not toeing the lines of those in power or their abhorrence of boots-licking.
Isn’t it strange to dropping the efficiency and sophistication standards to be replaced by fragile measure such as (likes and dislikes)?
It is the realty we are living that most of the top officials are not concerned about efficiency measures, rather they concentrate on loyalties and on those who obey orders without any comment or voicing their objections to violations in the public work.
The public service is plagued by those apple polishers and they have become the gatekeepers of the top officials.
In most of the institutions, particularly, innovation and success at work are missing or no longer a big deal.
Certainly discontent with government and the state is a product of such lamentable legacies in public service.
The state reform is not just decisions, studies and legislations, because those are just a branch of the reform tree.
The soil of the state reform tree has to do with behaviour – as to giving the citizens due respect as valued citizens and fellow human beings.
The state reform programme should start from this point because the problem lies therein, and if we fail to remedy it, then our dream of becoming a civilized nation would evaporate.
