Recruitment into public sector<\/strong><\/p>\nHe went on further to say that the growing perception that recruitment into the public service has been stopped is not accurate.<\/p>\n
He said “government is not halting employment into the public services either,” and that “we will continue to employ the numbers that we need, that is the difference.”<\/p>\n
The President explained that what government intends to do is to stagger the recruitment and by that, coordinate it, to ensure there is no mass recruitment into the public sector.<\/p>\n
“We can’t do a whole sale employment into the public services even if we don\u2019t need them and employing people who have no work to do in the organizations.”<\/p>\n
Staff rationalization<\/strong><\/p>\nPresident Mahama said government is embarking on a massive \u201cstaff rationalization process that is yielding good results.”<\/p>\n
Citing the educational sector as one of the beneficiaries of the staff rationalization initiative, President Mahama said \u00a0government had posted over 13,000 teachers to teach in very deprived areas that needed such services.<\/p>\n
“That is part of the problem we have with our public services, we have a concentration of professionals in some areas and lack of professionals in some areas, we cannot continue to have that. There are teachers needed in the rural areas \u00a0and yet all the teachers are in the urban centres.”<\/p>\n
“And so we are moving to a system under the decentralisation where eventually vacancies will be declared at the district level. If there are no vacancies in the cities, sorry, if you wan to work, you must go \u00a0where the vacancies are,” he added.<\/p>\n
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By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n