THE Vice-President, Ms Samia Suluhu Hassan, has directed the Ethics Secretariat to investigate and take disciplinary and legal action against leaders and civil servants going against work ethics for selfish reasons.
Ms Hassan made the remarks in Mtwara
yesterday when officially opening the building that will accommodate the
Public Leadership Ethics Secretariat, Southern Zone.
It cost 2bn/-. The vice-president said
such steps will reduce and control the rate at which ethics are eroding
among public leadership and civil servants to ensure efficiency at
workplaces.
She stressed that the government will
continue to improve the ethics secretariat through building its capacity
- both financially and equipping it with human resources to increase
efficiency.
The vice-president urged public leaders
and civil servants to uphold work ethics and protect the interests of
the public to reduce complaints from the public.
“It is very important for the ethics
secretariat to follow up conduct of public leaders and civil servants
and identify those going against work ethics for public offices and
proceed to take the necessary legal and disciplinary measures,” she
stressed.
Ms Hassan called on Mtwara residents to
make use of the secretariat’s new offices in the Southern Zone by
reporting public leaders and civil servants who do not conduct
themselves ethically.
The Minister of State in the President’s
Office - Public Service Management and Good Governance, Ms Angellah
Kairuki, stressed that the ethics secretariat will this year verify
declaration of assets and liabilities registered by 500 public leaders
in the country.
One of the functions of the Ethics
Secretariat is to receive and verify declarations of assets and
liabilities which are required to be made by public leaders under the
country’s constitution.
The Ethics Secretariat Commissioner,
Judge (retired) Salome Kaganda, appealed to the government to allocate
enough financial resources to ensure a successful verification exercise
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