UMNO Cheras mahu Najib timbang semula lantik Sidek Hassan pengerusi baru Petronas
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| Hanya beri pandangan berhubung perlantikan pengerusi baru Petronas |
Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak diminta mengkaji semula perlantikan bekas Ketua Setiausaha Negara (KSN), Tan Sri Mohd. Sidek Hassan sebagai Pengerusi Petronas.
Menurut Ketua UMNO Bahagian Cheras,Datuk Wira Syed Ali Alhabshee, jawatan pengerusi baru Petronas sepatutnya dipegang oleh golongan profesional dan tidak semestinya daripada bekas pegawai tinggi kerajaan yang sudah bersara.
"Saya bimbang perlantikan tersebut akan menimbulkan rasa kecewa sesetengah pihak termasuk bekas pemimpin-pemimpin politik," ujarnya.
Langkah itu juga katanya, bagi mengelak timbul anggapan umum bahawa mana-mana pegawai tinggi kerajaan yang sudah bersara telah disediakan jawatan baru dengan pendapatan yang lebih lumayan.
"Semasa berkhidmat dengan kerajaan, mereka menerima gaji yang tinggi dan pencen yang sudah mencukupi, sepatutnya jawatan tersebut diagihkan pula kepada golongan profesional atau pun bekas-bekas pemimpin politik," tegasnya.
Beliau bimbang perlantikan Mohd. Sidek yang dilihat sesetengah akan menimbulkan pelbagai pelbagai persespsi negatif.
"saya hanya mahu Perdana Menteri menimbang semula perlantikan tersebut, bukan bermaksud menentang atau pun mempertikaikan kewibawaan Mohd. Sidek," tegasnya.
Perdana Menteri pada satu majlis makan malam penghargaan sempena persaraan Mohd. Sidek di Kuala Lumpur malam tadi mengumumkan bekas KSN itu sebagai pengerusi baru Petronas.
Najib berkata perlantikan itu akan berkuatkuasa sebaik selesai beberapa urusan dalaman.
Bercakap kepada media selepas merasmikan Juara Rakyat Parlimen Cheras Karnival NGO dan Swasta dan pelancaran Gerakan Memertabatkan Pejuang Negara (GMPN) Wilayah Persekutuan di Chears pagi ini, Syed Ali menambah, saranan beliau itu bukan bermaksud menentang keputusan Perdana Menteri.
Menurut beliau lagi, umum akan melemaprkan tuduhan kononnya kerajaan hanya menjaga kepentingan bekas-bekas pegawai tinggui kerjaaan yang sudsah bersara.
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| PM umum Sidek Hassan sebagai pengerusi baru Petronas |
Sedangkan kata Syed Ali, banyak golongan profesional dan bekas-bekas pemimpin politik apabila bersara tidak mendapat kedudukan istmewa atau ditawarkan jawatan penting dalam mana-mana syraikat milik kerajaan.
"Saya hanya memberikan pandangan berdasarkan suara di bawah, kerana khuatir perlantikan tersebut boleh menimbulkan rasa kecewa dan marah rakyat kepada kerajaan," ujarnya.
Katanya, rakyat tidak akan melakukan protes secara terbuka tetapi apabila mereka 'marah dalam diam' sedikit-sebanyak akan memberi kesan kepada kredibiliti kerajaan menjelang Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) ke-13.
"Sudah tentu rakyat akan bertanya, mengapa pegawai tinggi kerajaan yang sudah bersara diberikan jawatan penting itu, ini memungkinkan timbuil pelbagai andaian," ujarnya.
Bagaimanapuin kata beliau, terserah kepada Perdana Menteri untuk membuat keputusan muktamad berhubung perkara tersebut.
SBPA Flip-flop a Blow to Transformation
Sunday, 11 March 2012 admin-s
Suddenly, Najib says, “this decision would be the best solution for the benefit of the entire civil service”. For the civil service, perhaps. But what about for the nation? What happened to his “transformation” plan to make the civil service more efficient, productive, competitive and high-performing – to meet the challenges of a dreamed-of high-income nation?
Kee Thuan Chye
Najib Razak has just committed another major flip-flop, showing once again that he is the most indecisive prime minister we have had so far.
He has cancelled the proposed revamp of the civil servants’ remuneration scheme and reverted to the old one, the Malaysian Remuneration System (SSM). So much for all his talk about reform.
The now-scrapped Public Service New Remuneration Scheme (SBPA) was mooted to reward civil servants with a pay rise but, more importantly, to keep them on their toes. Its key aim was to transform the civil service into an efficient, productive, competitive and high-performing entity. It was part of Najib’s transformation plans aimed at making Malaysia a high-income nation.
There was to be evaluation of the work of civil servants, and those who did not perform were to have faced the possibility of dismissal – under the SBPA’s Exit Policy. It would have helped to weed the chaff from the grain, to get rid of deadwood. And aptly too, since the civil service is bloated – with 1.4 million employees.
But the civil servants balked at this. They feared that their security of tenure, which they had become so pampered with, might be threatened.
Much more significant than that, those in the lower grades (up to Grade 54) were appalled to learn that under the new scheme, there would be a huge disparity between their salaries and those of the 2,600 officers in the higher grades – a disparity of more than 1,000%. In this case, their umbrage was justified.
Those in Grade 54 and below would receive increments of between 7% and 13%, while those in the upper levels, from Superscale C and above, would reportedly get increments of at least RM5,000.
It was also reported that some employees in the lower levels would be getting a pay rise of as little as RM1.70, whereas the Chief Secretary to the Government would have his salary upgraded to RM60,000 a month, and Staff Grade officers would end up getting about RM36,000 a month.
Naturally, a crisis arose from this. What was meant to be a boon for the civil servants turned out to be a bane for the Government.
The implementation of the SBPA, which was originally scheduled for Jan 1, had to be postponed. A task force was set up to resolve the matter. Representatives from the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) were invited to thrash it out with the Public Service Department.
Najib gave the task force three months to do what was needed. Towards the end of January, Cuepacs President Omar Osman threatened to pull out if three other Cuepacs officers were not appointed to the task force. On Feb 5, the Government acceded to his demand.
Then suddenly, on March 8, way before the three months was up, Najib announced that the SBPA would be scrapped.
Suddenly, Najib says, “this decision would be the best solution for the benefit of the entire civil service”. For the civil service, perhaps. But what about for the nation? What happened to his “transformation” plan to make the civil service more efficient, productive, competitive and high-performing – to meet the challenges of a dreamed-of high-income nation?
What he now says stinks of politicalspeak. And what he’s done appears to be a politically expedient move. The obvious indication is, he wants to call for the general election soon and he needs to ensure that the civil servants are happy, because they form a big and important segment of the voters. He wants the issue resolved earlier than the allotted time so that the civil servants can get their new salaries and arrears just before they go to the polling stations. Otherwise, why would he be in such a hurry to scrap the SBPA?
Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin may deny that the decision was not made in connection with the general election, and he may deny that the scrapping of the SBPA amounted to a failure in policy implementation, but would we have expected him to say otherwise?
How can it not be a failure in policy implementation when the time allotted for the issue to be ironed out was not honoured? In other words, the policy was not given a chance.
Muhyiddin acknowledges that it was gradually discovered that the SBPA did not meet the pay rise and perks demands of the civil servants and therefore it had to be scrapped. Is he therefore admitting that the policy was faulty to begin with? If so, who is to be held responsible for not foreseeing the policy’s shortcomings if not the Government? Why did the Government issue a new scheme without thinking it through?
Another interesting question – is the new scheme meant to merely meet the demands of the civil servants, or is it to meet the needs of the nation?
And what is it ultimately – a faulty policy or a failure in implementation?
Whatever it is, this has to be the umpteenth flip-flop since Najib became Prime Minister. And it clearly shows that the Government is not steadfast on its policy decisions.
Any attempt to make the Government look good as a result of this cannot be convincing. Deputy Higher Education Minister Saifuddin Abdullah says the SBPA turnabout showed that the Government listened to the people. It somehow sounds like a joke – or, worse, a lie.
How could the Government be listening to the people when in the first place, it caused so much disgruntlement by issuing the SBPA?
One would like to think that Saifuddin had more integrity than to spin something like that, but when the general election is near, politicalspeak rules the day.
Perhaps the whole shebang was engineered such that Najib could come riding in like a knight and call the whole thing off – so it would look like he saved the day. That he was the saviour of the civil servants. So that his ratings would go higher. And the votes would pour in for Barisan Nasional.
But the people who would perceive him as the saviour of the situation would have to be people who are not well-informed or those who cannot think for themselves. To put it bluntly, they would have to be simple minds. And perhaps there are more simple minds in Malaysia than thinking ones – and the Government knows this to be a fact – so this strategy could work very well to Najib’s advantage.
But to those who can see through it, he is just another wishy-washy leader. So much for all his talk about “transformation”. So much for “People First, Performance Now”. The Prime Minster himself cannot even perform what he set out to do. He had neither the guts nor the political will.
At this rate, how will Malaysia ever move forward?
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