For Bassolma Bazié, Burkinabè Minister of State, Minister of the Civil Service, Labor and Social Protection, the time is over for the instrumentalization of religious, ethnic or regional factors for political or partisan ends in the functioning of public administration.
On March 9, the Minister presented a draft law on the issue in Ouagadougou to the members of the Commission for General Institutional Affairs and Human Rights (CAGIDH). “In view of the harmful effects of the politicization of the administration, in particular the recruitment, appointment and promotion of public officials on the basis of partisan criteria, which constitute a brake on the efficiency of the public administration, it is imperative to reduce the negative influence of politics on its functioning, to strengthen meritocracy within it, through the adoption of a law,” he said. A proposal welcomed by the President of CAGIDH who sees in it the minister’s desire to clean up the Burkinabè public administration so that it regains its virtuous character. If this bill has not yet been passed in the National Assembly, it is still on the right track, to see the enthusiasm of each other. And if it is enacted, the so-called country of honest men will not have borne its name as much as today, the democratic model being an ideal which promotes individuals not according to their social origin, their wealth or even of their individual relationships, but rather of their merit. By merit, we must understand aptitude, work, effort, skills, intelligence, virtue…
Even if researchers point out its shortcomings given the inequality of opportunity, the democratic model has always been considered a model of social justice. He gives Caesar what is his. This is not always the case in Africa in general, in Togo in particular where many have become agents of the administration more because of their relations or origin than because of their skills. In defiance of eligibility criteria, competitions have often suffered from favoritism which ultimately harms the most deserving. As a result, many young people who deserve to be recruited, those who have ticked all the boxes, those who have good skills, are forced to fall back on jobs they do not deserve, hoping to be called one day or the other, while the “chosen” shine by an unbearable negligence. The Togolese Ministry of Public Service should take inspiration from Bassolma Bazié’s initiative.
DKM
Source: The Corrector / lecorrecteur.info