By Lamin B. Darboe- Information Officer, PMO
The new Minister of Public Service, Administrative, Reforms, Policy Coordination and Delivery, Baboucarr O. Joof on Wednesday met with the Personnel Management Office‘s (PMO) Senior Management Team (SMT) under his ministry.
The purpose of the meeting is for the minister to familiarize himself with the mandates and responsibilities of the Personnel Management Office (PMO) and how they do their work among other issues of concern to him.
Speaking during the day-long meeting held at PMO conference hall, minister Joof described the sector as the most important resource the country has, is the human capital, adding that for the country to develop, the first thing it needs to do is to make sure the country have the capital in place.
‘‘To ensure the human capital has the capacity to execute what we are mandated to do in our institutions and also monitor what is going on across the spectrum from Secreatry General to the last worker on the payroll,“ minister Joof explained.
He advised PMO top offficials to have their lenses all the time being in a position to observe what is going on in civil servcie, whether by proxits or doing it by themselves while urging them to make sure they are familiar what is happening in other ministries and the entire public service. That is the sector‘s job.
Minister Joof in his own words said: ‘‘This is not at all going to exhilarate you from your current responsiblity of providing regulatory framework, providing instrument that would make people work. So we will continue do what you are doing, but we need to move to the step further, ensure people do what we asign them to do, recriut people, design the job specification, push them, promote them and transfer them“.
He echo that PMO is an important part of public service and it is the engine home for Government, we are responsible for making sure everyone is clear about their job describtion but not only that, we are also responsible for determine what reward system are in place and what people get rewarded with, after doing a good job.
As a sector he added, we need to monitor to know those who are delivering and those who are not, then start bringing in incentives, whether negative or positive adding that the sector also need to start looking at those who deseve to be compensated in the system and compensate them apropriately, then the country will move forward.
If you do good job in the evening, you expect somebody to thank you, that responsibility is with PMO and it will remain with PMO and it is now for me as your minister to know how you are going with these responsibilities for the years past.
You know and i know we can do better what we are doing currently and we are the one charged with that responsibility to ensure not that we only do the right thing, but make people do what is expectd from them.
Am here to understand, 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. But first i need to know what PMO have, what is in place, what you have to eneure the task assigned to me by the President on your behalf is understood then we will understand what we have to do, then the bridge between where we are and what we have to do become easy for all of us.
During the meeting, each director within PMO explained to the new minister their Divison’s main mandates and responsibilities and they promised to suport him at all times.