It seems the hardest hit is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where officers have been reportedly thrown out with career diplomats basically misplaced. There has been hullaballoo in the corridors of power that the public service is somewhat awash with civil servants who have ‘deviously’ chosen not to toe the line of their principals. Normally, this line of thinking becomes even more pronounced when the country goes to the national polls as the government becomes more content with officers who rarely question the line of thinking of their principals and decision-making processes, generally.
The government enclave normally whirrs with transfers of senior public servants in particular during the elections year and the main culprit in the year of elections amongst other government departments has been the Mass Media Complex, which houses both the government Information Services and Broadcasting Services. The latter department recently lost its director, Raymond Tsheko, who has been transferred outside the (Media) Complex to the Ministry of Environment and Tourism in his capacity as a director. This is one move that smacks of political interference ahead of the national polls slated for October this year. Tsheko, a renowned broadcaster, has almost been misplaced although there is an insistence that public servants are ‘transferrable’.
