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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>It was not by default that some of the government\u2019s paid and unpaid sycophants were attacking the principal secretaries who were fighting their termination.<\/p>\n

One local newspaper which bootlicks with gusto was peeved that the principal secretaries were not giving up on their fight (We were not told why that was such an evil thing).<\/p>\n

Their crime, as the newspaper insinuated, was that they were trying to delay the case so that they continue to earn their salaries and benefits. This tactic, the newspaper bellowed, was meant to sabotage the government.<\/p>\n

Really? Such an inane argument would be laughable were it not tragic. It was obvious the principal secretaries wanted to tie Uncle Sam in complex legal knots.<\/p>\n

That is how it works. No need for complicated mathematical models or throwing bones to know this would happen. Not much acumen needed either. Just simple history and common sense.<\/p>\n

The history being that it has happened before with consistency. The common sense being that people don\u2019t like being pushed out of their jobs for whatever reason.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter how and why you do it. How people defend their bread in court is their business. In this case, the principal secretaries were not being terminated because they had done anything wrong.<\/p>\n

Wanting to hire your own people to implement your policy is no reason enough to callously fire anyone. But somehow, Uncle Sam and his ministers thought they were a special breed that could walk into government and spank people out of their jobs.<\/p>\n

Now that the government has settled, you can be sure the same minions will pretend it was a result of the government\u2019s brilliance or benevolence. The truth is that the government should never have wasted its money and energy fighting the principal secretaries.<\/p>\n

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