{"id":5719,"date":"2022-05-13T05:47:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2022-05-13T05:47:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:47:48","slug":"activist-criticizes-politicians-silence-over-civil-servants-salary-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/13\/activist-criticizes-politicians-silence-over-civil-servants-salary-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist criticizes politicians\u2019 silence over civil servant\u2019s salary rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Edmund Yakani, Executive Director for CEPO-File Photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Bida Elly David<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Civil Society activist has cautioned the silence of politicians over deliberating on the proposal made by the Minister of Public Service towards increasing civil servants\u2019 salaries to 20,000 South Sudanese Pounds a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This came following the lack of seriousness that politicians have developed amid addressing and executing the concerns of the Minister of Public Service, Joseph Bangasi Bakosoro demanding remuneration improvement to civil servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, the Minister of Public Service made a proposal for the increment of civil servants\u2019 salaries to 20,000 South Sudanese Pounds (SSP) as a method of remuneration support to boost service delivery but things still seem to be hanging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper, Edmund Yakani, the Executive Director for Community Empowerment for Progress Organisation (CEPO) said that the silence made by politicians on Bakosoro\u2019s proposal to increase civil servant\u2019s salary was a failure to serve the nation and only egoism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHonourable Minister Joseph Bakosoro proposed a 20,000-salary structure for civil servants to start jobs with and politicians are quiet of this. Bakosoro\u2019s proposal has never been acted on by political leaders. I have not seen deliberations and reactions around it and the proposal of Bakosoro is dying silently. I don\u2019t want to see the silence of the political leaders telling us that there is no revenue. If we are to do comparative analysis, civil servants are asked to start their salary structure with 20,000 SSP per month and politicians starting with 800,000 SSP\u201d Yakani said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, Yakani said that the claimed commitments raised by politicians towards working on the proposal for the salary structure were rubber stamp ideas and lame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that people\u2019s standards of living would not be improved by making political statements but rather practical implementation of decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPoliticians were not able to agree to increase civil servants\u2019 salary. They are silent completely at the level of the parliament committee. Nobody wanted to raise the proposal of Joseph Bangasi Bakosoro. I feel disturbed by this silence of politicians on the improvement of the salary structure of the civil servants and I don\u2019t believe in political statements made by some politicians that we are watching the situation of the civil servants to improve their living conditions\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou cannot improve the living standards of citizens by making political statements. Living conditions of the civil servants can be improved by making practical actions like what Bakosoro has done, taking to Council of Ministers and bringing it back to the parliament and immediately executed so that civil servants will get. This is because Bakosoro is proactive in improving the salary structure of civil servants and also retirement of the old people since the politicians are not interested in those proposals.\u201d Yakani added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yakani echoed that the suffering of civil servants was due to lack of political will to improve and prioritise their living standard for betterment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, he had urged the leadership of the parliament to deliberate on the remuneration improvement for civil servants in order to boost high morals on service delivery in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI call on the leadership of the parliament at the capacity of the speakership and members that the parliament should deliberate on the improvement of the civil servant\u2019s salary structure. Civil servants don\u2019t suffer due to lack of revenues but due to lack of political will to improve their living standards. We have enough money but we need a political will and commitment to improve the living condition of civil servants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, politicians delay salaries of civil servants but they don\u2019t delay their benefits through political defence that have been paid for by the treasury of the country. Civil servants don\u2019t have political events for the treasury of the country. The politicians are getting money from the treasury of the country for political activities which civil servants who are providing services do not have access to; national revenues the way politicians do. You cannot improve social service delivery if you don\u2019t improve the living standard of the civil servants\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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