Raiding the public purse: pay and patronage

Last week I stated that during my presentation to the Public Service Commission of Inquiry I argued that after only a few months in office, the present regime succumbed to ethnic entrepreneurship and began undercutting its stated principles of what a public servant should be. I then identified two problems that generally affect public management and proposed solutions to the first of these, namely the propensity of politicians to trust only those close to them and in their immediate circle.

The second problem, an aspect of which we are observing in practice at this very moment,