Africa-Press – Mauritius. If ICAC had complied with the law, why then should the Integrity Agency have entered a court action? Can you say what the agenda of ICAC is?’ Lex addresses the seemingly unresolvable conundrum about the autonomy of heads of parastatal bodies at their intersection with civil servants who are entrenched in their rigid bureaucratic ways, or political appointees who feel they are at liberty to mess up with decisions taken on matters about which they have scant or no knowledge let alone experience.
Unless bold and fearless individuals entrusted with high responsibilities call out the bluff, the country will continue to suffer from the inanities of those whose operative mode is genuflexion.
* Sanjeev Ghurburrun, chairman of the Mauritius Port Authority (MPA) has, in a recent interview to l’express, been highly critical of alleged “interference” and “slackness” of responsible officers in its parent ministry, namely those at the level of the External Communication Department du Prime Minister’s Office.
Isn’t that a serious charge coming from a PM appointee? It is not only a serious charge. It is a glaring proof of how some civil servants and many advisers, who are not even answerable to the electorate or to Parliament, pull the strings behind the scene allegedly with the connivance of ministers.
Sanjeev Ghurburrun has only laid bare an endemic situation that has set in as a rot in the maladministration of the country since a few years. It needed guts to do that, and he must be congratulated for having said openly what many dare not do for fear of political reprisal.
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