NGO lauds 15 less Ministers in Anwar’s Unity Cabinet: "Focus on trimming bloated civil service"
Published on: Monday, December 12, 2022
Goh was also delighted to note that the 11 Chinese Full Ministers and Deputy Ministers are young and with professional backgrounds, besides having considerable experience in politics.
Kuala Lumpur: The Prime Minister’s move of rolling out a slimmer Federal Cabinet should be supported by all Malaysians, said President of The Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia (Huazong) Tan Sri T.C Goh.He said it reflected well on the unity government’s emphasis on quality, rather than quantity and hoped the present government could adopt the same determination to trim down the size of our bloated public service sector, in stages, so that it will not continue to incur heavy financial burden to the government.ADVERTISEMENT
However, Goh said the proposed trimming should not involve any retrenchment of the existing civil servants, but through a well thought out and properly planned restructuring of various government departments and agencies, to fully utilise available manpower.
“The government can also gradually reduce the intake of civil servants, unless it is absolutely necessary, such as in the aspect of national security i.e. the armed forces and police force, education and healthcare sectors, to fill up vacancies left vacant by those officers or personnel who had left or retired,” he said in a statement here on Saturday.
Goh, who is also President of The Federation of Chinese Associations Sabah (FCAS), said this in a statement. He was commenting on the the Deputy Ministers’ line-up announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
The new Federal Cabinet is now made up of 55 members comprising 28 full ministers and 27 deputy ministers, which is ‘slimmer’ than the previous Federal Cabinet which comprised 70 members namely 32 full ministers and 38 deputy ministers.
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The ministers also takes a 10 per cent pay cut with Anwar himself forgoing his pay.
Goh was also delighted to note that the 11 Chinese Full Ministers and Deputy Ministers are young and with professional backgrounds, besides having considerable experience in politics. He said the Chinese community has high hopes and expectations of them.
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He said the introduction of the Deputy PM post for East Malaysia, the maintaining of the Sabah and Sarawak Affairs portfolio under the Prime Minister’s Department and the appointments of Full Ministers and Deputy Ministers from Sabah and Sarawak, fully demonstrated the spirit of a multiracial ‘Malaysian Family’, and it should be fully supported by Malaysians of all races.
Goh also supported the Prime Minister’s move of appointing six senators for them to become Full Ministers (four) and Deputy Ministers (two). He opined that such a move was necessary for political expediency, under the current circumstances.
“The new government and the Federal Cabinet should not be thinking of having a ‘honeymoon’ period, but to immediately start working to serve the country and the people,” he said.
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