President John Dramani Mahama has urged his ministers to incentivise public officers to work with the urgency required to fulfill the government’s four-year mandate.
Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of Minister of State for Public Sector Reforms, Lydia Akanvariba, and 13 deputy ministers at the Jubilee House on Wednesday, March 12, President Mahama highlighted the difference in work pace between elected officials and public servants.
“There are two clocks we hear. For those of us elected by the people of Ghana to lead them, the clock we hear is the ticking of the fast clock of the four-year time frame given to us by the people of Ghana.
“The officers you will be working with in the public services have security of tenure, and they hear a more relaxed clock, and that clock ticks towards their retirement age of 60 years. They may therefore not be in as much a hurry as you,” President Mahama explained.
He, therefore, stressed the importance of ministers motivating public officers to align their work pace with the administration’s goals.
“You must therefore work to encourage and incentivize them to work at the pace of your four-year mandate that the people of Ghana have given to you.
“If you are able to let them see the urgency and the hurry in which this government is, we shall achieve success,” he stated.
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