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Change Your Behavior Says Prime Minister Oli; What About Accountability?
Change Your Behavior Says Prime Minister Oli;
What About Accountability?
KTM Metro Reporter
November 22, 2018
Speaking at the first quarter progress review of the implementation of the budget and programs of the current fiscal year held at the Federal State secretariat at Singhadurbar Kathmandu, Prime Minister KP Oli instructed the ministers and secretaries to change their working style so that there would be no delay in moving the files brought up for the decisions, and told them if they have the problems of laws say so or the ministers have delayed the decisions say so or their secretaries have delayed the decisions say so; the government has been in place for nine months but no significant change in the working style has been seen, the tendency of making delay in the State performances would not be acceptable, the news in “gorkhapatra” on November 22, 2018 stated.
Would ministers or secretaries follow the instructions of the prime minister? It is very doubtful given the previous instructions of the prime minister not honored. For example, the office of the prime minister instructed the ministries not to send the government officials to the study visit abroad, and the instructions to fill up the potholes so widespread on the Kathmandu streets were not honored by anybody.
Surely, poor Prime Minister Oli has been mad at the ministers and their secretaries for not making any headway in even filling up the widespread potholes in the Kathmandu roads that the prime minister must have felt while moving around. Recently, for the third time after taking office, the prime minister had ordered to fill up the potholes nothing had happened so far, yet.
It was a shame that the prime minister not the secretaries or the ministers had failed in doing the things the prime minister had ordered to do. Why Prime Minister Oli did not think about why his instructions to the ministers and secretaries to fill up the potholes had not been honored.
Probably, the instructions were general and not specific to the minister or the secretary. When so many ministries are digging the roads then nobody has been filling up the potholes that had been left unattended causing some innocent folks to lose their lives. Is it not the prime minister responsible for such phenomenon?
If the prime minister had given the instructions to the specific ministry to fill up the potholes then the prime minister could pinpoint the folk accountable to do the task. Obviously, it was not.
The next serious concern is the lack of the system of accountability. The country has the experts in constitution and laws and civil administration and what not but those experts probably had thought big things ignoring the minor ones that are more important to make the State administration perform properly. That is the accountability.
So, these experts needed to tell the prime minister craft a system of accountability then he would not need to instruct anybody to fill up the potholes rather see whether the concerned agency or ministry has been working or not if not then fire the minister or the secretary or anybody accountable to perform the task of filling up the potholes. That’s it. Then, the prime minister would not need to be mad at anybody, simply could fire the non-performing persons or replace them with the performing persons. So, simple to make folks work but the prime minister wants the ministers and secretaries to change their behavior that they would surely not do so if their performances were not to judge by the accountability.
