"The President has failed to crack the whip. Permanent secretaries, ministers, Vice President and the President have failed to take action on the Auditor General's report and other problems in the civil service."
He said yearly, the AG highlights almost the same problems but nobody seems to take action and called on the department to be given powers. "Please give AG executive powers," the legislator said.
Sebetela said government must improve civil servants' conditions of service if it is to retain competitive staff. He said employees of parastatals are paid better salaries than their civil service counterparts and urged government to take action.
Sebetela supported his case on the decline in productivity levels through an answer given by Assistant Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Duncan Mlazie. The minister said in the 2004/05 financial year government spent P3.9billion out of the P4.4billion development budget. 1,082 projects were planned for that year but only 250 were completed and commissioned. Mlazie was answering Sebetela who wanted him to state what the number and value of projects planned were; the actual expenditure and actual number of projects completed and commissioned.
