By Lamin B. Darboe
The Minister of Public Service, Administrative Reforms,Policy Coordination and Delivery, Baboucarr O. Joof, on Wednesday, May 18th met with the Senior Management Team (SMT) of the Personnel Management Office (PMO).
The meeting afforded the minister the opportunity to familiarise himself with the mandate of the Personnel Management Office (PMO) as well as share his vission with the senior management team.
In his remarks, he described the sector as the most important resource the country has. „For the country to develop,the first thing we have to do is to make sure we have the capital in place.. and to execute what we are mandated to do in our institutions and also monitor what is going on across the spectrum, we must have the human capaital“.
Minister Joof advised PMO offficials to have their lenses on at all times, in order to be in a position to observe what is going on in the civil servcie. „So we will continue doing what you are doing, but we need to move a step further, ensure people do what we asign them to do, recriut people, design the job specifications, push them, promote them, and transfer them“.
He reminded that President Adama Barrow is passionate about getting people to work on time, emphasising that that responsibilty begins and ends with them at PMO.
The minister further underscored the need to monitor people, „to know those who are delivering and those who are not; and then start bringing in incentives“.
„I am here to understand; I am not here to judge; so that as a team we can set up what we have to do. Becasue I will serve as your spokeperson at the cabinet level,“ Mr Joof told the SMT.