{"id":9283,"date":"2022-01-21T07:13:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T07:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ministerial-notes-approved-or-simply-seen"},"modified":"2022-01-21T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T08:02:22","slug":"ministerial-notes-approved-or-simply-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ministerial-notes-approved-or-simply-seen","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial Notes: \u2018Approved\u2019 or simply \u2018Seen\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Several observers have commented that one of the fallouts of the so-called MedPoint scandal is that the response of civil servants to ministerial instructions need no longer be unconditional acquiescence, particularly in cases where such instructions involve non-compliance with established procedures, rules and regulations or have implications in terms of conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

Union leaders have stated unequivocally that a civil servant is entitled to say \u2018NO\u2019 when he has sufficient grounds to take such a serious stand. It can be taken as a rule of thumb that if a minister insists on fast-tracking or giving priority to a file, then officers handling that file must take double care to ensure that there isn\u2019t something fishy going on.<\/p>\n

Ministers can be very irrational; often they take brash decisions which they expect to be implemented without even having considered what these entail in terms of resources and other parameters, and are quick to want to find scapegoats if their decisions \u2013 which are more like wishes that are cut off from realities \u2013 cannot be followed through because of genuine constraints.<\/p>\n

All the more reason for civil servants to be very meticulous about all aspects of the processing of files, and if need be seek legal advice on the more sensitive or potentially controversial ones even if this causes some delay \u2013 better to be safe than sorry.<\/p>\n

Of course, if there are deadlines to be met these must be respected so as not to affect the efficiency and smooth running of the sector concerned, and any responsible officer will always act conscientiously and responsibly to fulfil such obligations.<\/p>\n

\u2018Abdication\u2019 of public officers?<\/p>\n

Mention has been made of the \u2018abdication of public officers\u2019 vis-\u00e0-vis their respective ministers, with allusion to eminent bureaucrats in the past who stood up to ministerial authority when the occasion so demanded and got their way after defending their case with the relevant facts and figures backed up by cogent argumentation.<\/p>\n

Why, there are even a few examples of issues being taken up to prime ministerial level \u2013 in this very country \u2013 with, subsequently, ministers having to answer.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, a number of who those who have pronounced themselves are either academics or ex-politicians and others such as some journalists who are very good at theorizing \u2013 but none of whom has ever been in the shoes of or been civil servants.<\/p>\n

This weakens their case. Unfortunately, they cannot be forgiven as Jesus did when he appealed to his Father in heaven to forgive those who had crucified him, for they \u2018know not what they do.<\/p>\n

\u2019 Because, here the agenda is to hit at the bureaucracy in general, overtly pointing fingers at what is in fact systemic and structural inefficiency which they do not know anything about, and for which the political process \u2013 which includes overbearing politicians \u2014 is to a large extent responsible.<\/p>\n

They make light of saying \u2018NO\u2019 \u2013 as if it\u2019s just like that, say \u2018No\u2019 and it\u2019s done! Their ignorance speaks volumes for themselves! They have no notion of the context and the vulnerabilities to which civil servants are exposed.<\/p>\n

To start with, the political masters of today they have to deal with are a far, far cry from the mostly highly educated, civilized, cultured and suave ones of days gone by.<\/p>\n

They had the decency to restrict themselves to mainly policy and strategy matters, and when it came to the nitty-gritty which they were not familiar with they were happy to leave it to those, bureaucrats and technicians, who knew better.<\/p>\n

Of course there were exceptions, but they were few and far between. They would at least take the trouble to listen, and truly when they referred to the \u2018national interest\u2019 they meant it, and they knew what it meant.<\/p>\n

Unlike nowadays, when the national interest means self-interest: on that score nobody, even the lay public, will be fooled anymore. Further, in those days, there was a greater respect for the rule of law and legalities, and for institutional mechanisms which were considered to be a bulwark against any intrusive or biased tendencies.<\/p>\n

Recent dispensations have shown scant regard for established structures and institutions, and played with the Constitution. The ultra-fast dismantling of the ECO, the recourse to advice outside the State Law Office in the first great mega-scandal of recent times (the Illovo deal) come to mind as having triggered the bypass and non-constructive criticisms of institutions and court decisions.<\/p>\n

That the country has gone further down this slippery slope is directly attributable to the political element. The critics and representatives of civil servants have to appreciate how difficult it is for the latter to function under extreme pressure and under swords of Damocles.<\/p>\n

Beyond merely talking, the union leaders, especially, must support the civil servants in more active ways, and provide them with the robust framework within which they can stand up to the undue pressures they are subjected to.<\/p>\n

Then only one can begin to clear up the Augean stables that the political class has made of the civil service, otherwise everyone should just shut up.<\/p>\n

And certainly not go on about reforms which have not and will never take place. And what about ministers who \u2018see\u2019 and don\u2019t \u2018approve\u2019? This is a variant that is used by certain ministers who avoid taking decisions and assume the attendant responsibility, but give verbal orders.<\/p>\n

When the officers concerned prepare a minute in file and move it up to the minister for the latter\u2019s approval, what they get instead of \u2018approved\u2019 is a scribbled \u2018seen\u2019 \u2013 which anyone with simple horse sense will understand to mean that the minister is conveniently trying to escape from his responsibility in case there is a query, and this will inevitably happen when somebody raises an objection.<\/p>\n

And these days, this may go right up to ICAC. Can the civil servant afford to accept a simple \u2018seen\u2019? The answer is no. He must go back again and again, as long as it takes to have a formal approval.<\/p>\n

If that is not obtained, then the project or whatever must be kept in abeyance until such approval is obtained in black and white. Otherwise even the minister risks being hauled up to answer to ICAC, and rightly so.<\/p>\n

Given such escapisms on the part of ministers and sundry politicians, it is up to the political leadership to lay down clear guidelines and principles to allow the civil service, and civil servants, to perform their work without duress and take the policies of government forward.<\/p>\n

And we have not said the last word about policy-making yet. Before broadening the backs of civil servants to endure the whims of ministers and government, what about the government coming out with a \u2018Manual of Practice and SOPs for Politicians and Ministers\u2019?<\/p>\n

That, indeed, would be some progress. It would also facilitate the work of the much reviled civil servant, and help to avert scandals of which this country has had enough and can certainly do without.<\/p>\n

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