President Dr Lazarus Chakwera said Monday “we need to bring back discipline, order and professionalism in the civil service.”
Answering a question from reporters at the celebration to mark 100 days in office, the Malawi leader said Malawi’s civil service had a reputation in southern Africa as a professional one in the past.
“We need to get back that reputation again and not a politicised civil service,” he said, answering a question as why several retired civil servants had been recalled instead of employing young graduates.
Chakwera said the biggest employer is Government, with some 200,000 workers on its payroll.
He said this “should not be so,” encouraging citizens and the private sector to help in creating employment.
“Not everybody can find a Government job,” advising universities to think how they can provide education that can help graduates to create employment and not seek blue-collar jobs.
