Governor threatens lazy officials

Governor threatens lazy officials

KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Southeast Sulawesi Governor Ali
Mazi threatened on Monday to fire lazy civil servants who do not
show up for work.

The slothful civil servants would first be issued reprimands
and if they ignored the warnings, the local administration would
recommend their dismissal, he said.

"Evaluations have been carried out on all civil servants,
especially those at the Southeast Sulawesi secretariat, to find
out which officials are lazy," Mazi said after attending a
meeting at the province's legislative council in Kendari.

He could not specify the number of local civil servants who
were habitually late or absent, but said related authorities had
given him the data and he would soon follow up on the information
by issuing verbal and written reprimands.

The decision to dismiss indolent officials may also affect
those in all local government agencies, including the village
level, the governor added.

He said serious improvement of the civil servants' performance
and discipline was desperately needed so the province's
development programs could operate efficiently, particularly in
applying development strategies for the Prosperous Community
System (SMS). --Antara