Too many lazy people in Ghana's public sector - Expert

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moi 8 years ago

Yet every month they religiously take their salaries. How can we not play the blame game? People must be held accountable.

Yet every month they religiously take their salaries. How can we not play the blame game? People must be held accountable.
ivy 8 years ago

we are lazy

we are lazy
POP 8 years ago

JESUS SAID THE TRUTH

JESUS SAID THE TRUTH
Tijani 8 years ago

and they also feel etitled. they think the govenrment is respsssble for everything. ghanainains are also naive and freeloaders

and they also feel etitled. they think the govenrment is respsssble for everything. ghanainains are also naive and freeloaders
Kwame Nkrumah 8 years ago

Top govt officials are themselves mostly lazy, incompetent and stupid. Thus, they cannot enforce discipline and hardworking ethics in the people they oversee. Black people, black brains....you will continue to wallow in pover ...
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Top govt officials are themselves mostly lazy, incompetent and stupid. Thus, they cannot enforce discipline and hardworking ethics in the people they oversee. Black people, black brains....you will continue to wallow in poverty till kingdom come!
Shabi 8 years ago

Ghanaians must begin to see and understand what these so-called experts are and to disregard them for what they are made of and what they are. Simply put, they are professionally inept, unenlightened and as dumb as they come. ...
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Ghanaians must begin to see and understand what these so-called experts are and to disregard them for what they are made of and what they are. Simply put, they are professionally inept, unenlightened and as dumb as they come. As a result, they lack the mental acumen and the professional capacity to properly analyze issues and problems and to offer viable alternatives and solutions to resolve them.

As far as I am concerned, there are two main reasons as to why there appears to be a system failure in Ghana and they have definitely not got anything to do with lazy workers. The term ‘lazy worker’ is a creation or the result of incompetent management and leadership.

My first reason is the lack of a responsible, disciplined, dedicated and knowledgeable leadership across-board in this country. In this regard, take for example the present leadership of the country. And by leadership, I am referring to the President, his Ministers, members of Parliament, heads of state institutions, the judiciary and the security apparatus among others. What worker in his right mind would be motivated or inspired to give off his/her best under the irresponsible and criminal 'supervision' by such bad leadership?

It is as if the overwhelming majority of top govt functionaries in this country missed their childhood and adolescence period of growing up and have now discovered that they can once again retrogress in time and begin to behave like irresponsible little children with the expensive, but free state logistics (toys) that are provided to them by govt.

I cannot remember the last time any govt functionary in this country made a sensible, respectable and well-thought-out statement about the dwindling state of affairs in this country. They seem to have lost all sense of shame as they continue to make complete fools of themselves in the public domain with inane utterances and behaviour that leave us open-mouthed with shock and disbelief.

Under such conditions, anybody who expects any worker to give off his/her best must be a goddamned joker or idiot living in a fools paradise. I must say that the biggest disincentive to hard work, honesty and discipline in the working environment is the loss of respect and disciplined mentorship for institutional authority.

Secondly and perhaps most importantly, the kind of salaries that are generally paid to Ghanaian workers is shameful and disgraceful, to say the least.

How anybody in his or her right mind can expect any worker to give off his/her diligent best with 'peanuts' ranging from GHC80 a month to GHC600 a month in the kind of Ghana that we live in today, beats my imagination. Off the top of my head, I can confidently state that over 80% of those who are lucky enough to get any employment at all, fall within this range of poorly paid workers at all levels.

In the main, such salaries are not even enough for transport to work and back home - much cater for their family needs and social obligations. Meanwhile, their irresponsible and criminally insensitive exploitative bosses who do even less work themselves, spend such amounts on extended lunch and booze sessions every day with their cronies and mistresses.

We must be grateful to God that we don’t have much more corruption and white-collar crime than the unacceptably high levels that currently prevails in our society. Ghanaians – you and I, are basically good people at heart but unfortunately, we have not had the necessary kinds of govt that we deserve. This has caused a rapid decline in the original quality of the Ghanaian and our social values.

Since that ill-omened day in February 1966, virtually all of our govts to date, have conducted themselves in a manner that is no better than how the evil colonial govts oppressed us. In the midst of a squalid insanitary disease-ridden society, these neo-colonial govt functionaries pay themselves huge salaries coupled with fantastic perks and privileges which millionaire film-stars in Los Angeles would be envious of. The resultant lackadaisical attitude to work, which is considered or described as an attitude of laziness by some, for me, shows a kind of resistance to the oppressive system under which we all live.
Join Hands 8 years ago

Whether we call it laziness or unproductive, we should all voice our concerns. We can clearly see that the attitude to work is bad and sad, morale is low, and there is too much corruption. I believe if the people from the dia ...
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Whether we call it laziness or unproductive, we should all voice our concerns. We can clearly see that the attitude to work is bad and sad, morale is low, and there is too much corruption. I believe if the people from the diaspora voice their concerns strongly without being politically biased, there will be some impact. Whether we like it or not there will be resistance from those within, who seem to wrongfully assume that the diasporans have forfeited their stakes in the country. Irrespective of the political party that one sympathizes with, let us seize the chance and re-direct the the destiny of Ghana. We have lost our culture, and every Ghanaian is responsible for it.
Therefore those in the diaspora who have been highly exposed should not shy away from making views known. We are still stakeholders and better ones for that matter. Political party or tribe does not matter, we are now faced with redirecting Ghana.
Neutral Zone 8 years ago

They are corrupt too.

They are corrupt too.
Abudance. 8 years ago

100% truth, lazy, individualistic behaviors, across board.

100% truth, lazy, individualistic behaviors, across board.
Omanhene (U$A) 8 years ago

To me, it shouldn't have been that long for our leaders to know that "many so-called government (public) workers are too damn LAZY, incompetent, careless about government property, disrespectful to the public they serve, dema ...
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To me, it shouldn't have been that long for our leaders to know that "many so-called government (public) workers are too damn LAZY, incompetent, careless about government property, disrespectful to the public they serve, demand illegal bribes for just doing their paid jobs, etc.

Some officials have made similar observations, but NO ACTIONS have been taken to correct this serious deficiency. Some workers report to work very late, take 2-3 hours lunch breaks and leave post early, to boot.

I lived, schooled and worked in Hamburg, Germany, where work (ARBEIT) is work. No tolerance for lateness, laziness and demanded serious daily output (work done). The German employer doesn’t bullshit around and if you try it, you're quickly FIRED. I did the same in Canada and for some years now, here in the United States of America. No lateness to work, actual daily productivity, exactly one hour lunch break, and clock off on your eighth hour of the day's work.

In Ghana, however, the government (public sector) is the chief or major employer of thousands of unproductive and badly dressed workers, who come to sit idle, talk about football all day, work some Lotto numbers, figure out how to STEAL and engage in many dubious machinations.

I've even heard from some "Deputy Ministers" at the ministries that they go to work daily, but don't have much work to do, because some of the substantive ministers are doggone selfish, arrogant, egoistic, bossy and don't ASSIGN them work to do. They want to do the work all by themselves, so why do we have 2 deputy ministers and a director? What the heck do they do all day, Negro? --ZIP, NOTHING, but they get paid.

Generally, my formed opinion, after several visits to Ghana is that “most of the people & workers in the country have a gargantuan or metaphysically huge behavioral or attitudinal problem” toward work, especially doing their paid jobs. Emphasis should be shifted from the public sector to the private sector, where PRODUCTIVITY is the name of the game. The heavy reliance on the government sector wouldn't get us anywhere—because it hasn't after some 60 years now. Paradigm change is badly needed toward our development!!
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Neutral Zone 8 years ago

The deputy minister does nothing coz the minister wants to prevent him/her from exposing their corrupt ways or b part of it.

The deputy minister does nothing coz the minister wants to prevent him/her from exposing their corrupt ways or b part of it.
Pelicles 8 years ago

We are lazy and wicked.

We are lazy and wicked.
Abudance. 8 years ago

Ghanaian workers are only entitle to their right to salary but never take responsibility, how can we develop.

Ghanaian workers are only entitle to their right to salary but never take responsibility, how can we develop.
ivy 8 years ago

you are right

you are right
abena-kwabena 8 years ago

They call hard workers eg. cocoa farmers names such as "kokoasefo".

They call hard workers eg. cocoa farmers names such as "kokoasefo".
BOY KOFI 8 years ago

Goil filling stations lack standards,most of their underground cisterns are corroded and leaking seriously.Govt must not waste time to make new regulation for experts to inspect all cisterns at Goil filling stations and the r ...
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Goil filling stations lack standards,most of their underground cisterns are corroded and leaking seriously.Govt must not waste time to make new regulation for experts to inspect all cisterns at Goil filling stations and the rest.Thank you.
sista clary 8 years ago

You said it all and right. Ghana public sector is overstaffed not effective and lazy. Go the ministries, you will see too many of them sleeping or handling their mobile phones

You said it all and right. Ghana public sector is overstaffed not effective and lazy. Go the ministries, you will see too many of them sleeping or handling their mobile phones
Al Hajj AAA-RASHID(OH.USA) 8 years ago

OYIWA? Ghanaweb just proved the author of this article right.

We are so lazy, Ghanaweb can not even take the trouble to look for the real picture of the sector minister being referred to, so they just put the picture of a ...
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OYIWA? Ghanaweb just proved the author of this article right.

We are so lazy, Ghanaweb can not even take the trouble to look for the real picture of the sector minister being referred to, so they just put the picture of a minister who hails from the North and think that is ok?

Ghanaweb the man in that photo is HARUNA FUSEINI and what has he to do with this story? How sad!
O'BOYE 8 years ago

Gov't should start pay its workers on hourly bases. No more broad based minimum wage, Let's learn from the standard of the developed counties. You can't come to work @ 9am, take your lunch @ 11am, report back @ 1pm, leave off ...
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Gov't should start pay its workers on hourly bases. No more broad based minimum wage, Let's learn from the standard of the developed counties. You can't come to work @ 9am, take your lunch @ 11am, report back @ 1pm, leave office @ 3pm, never come back and expect a full day's pay
AKORABS 8 years ago

O'Boye, they can keep to their time, but what about results? If your manager himself does not know what he wishes to achieve, how can he set you targets and monitor that you are or are not achieving these? The President himse ...
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O'Boye, they can keep to their time, but what about results? If your manager himself does not know what he wishes to achieve, how can he set you targets and monitor that you are or are not achieving these? The President himself does not know what he is to achieve and how so the ship is rudderless!
TOGBE 8 years ago

if we put characters like allotey jacobs on ecg board what do we expect to happen.....its the same everywhere thats why laziness and incompetence abounds everywhere...

if we put characters like allotey jacobs on ecg board what do we expect to happen.....its the same everywhere thats why laziness and incompetence abounds everywhere...
AKORABS 8 years ago

Togbe, well said. I heard this guy on Adom FM and I said, greed and selfishness and a soupcon of sycophancy are all that are bellowing out of this guy. He was discussing this BORST and BDC's issue. Apparently, he is on the BO ...
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Togbe, well said. I heard this guy on Adom FM and I said, greed and selfishness and a soupcon of sycophancy are all that are bellowing out of this guy. He was discussing this BORST and BDC's issue. Apparently, he is on the BORST board and own a filling station as well. Ghana is very far from being a meritocracy!
Jojo Jumah 8 years ago

Over 30% of filling stations in Ghana are owned by politicians and political appointees including some Ministers of State. What do you expect? Shame on all these idiots

Over 30% of filling stations in Ghana are owned by politicians and political appointees including some Ministers of State. What do you expect? Shame on all these idiots
kwasi 8 years ago

Fire, acid, Ebola, flood and doom so choose one and cast your vote

Fire, acid, Ebola, flood and doom so choose one and cast your vote
HAWA YAKUBU 8 years ago

Privatize many of these government agencies. This will help eliminate this lazy attitude by some Ghanaians. All elected government officials want to stay in Accra and supervise work at Paga and Hamile.

Privatize many of these government agencies. This will help eliminate this lazy attitude by some Ghanaians. All elected government officials want to stay in Accra and supervise work at Paga and Hamile.
Djan 8 years ago

Ghanians are very lazy people

Ghanians are very lazy people
KAE 8 years ago

LIKE ABLAKWA, FIIFI KWETEI, HANNAH BISIW, OMANE BOAMA, FELIX KWAKYE AND OTHER BABIES WITH SHARP TEETH. (ALL SQUARE PEGS IN ROUND HOLES)

LIKE ABLAKWA, FIIFI KWETEI, HANNAH BISIW, OMANE BOAMA, FELIX KWAKYE AND OTHER BABIES WITH SHARP TEETH. (ALL SQUARE PEGS IN ROUND HOLES)
Addo Agyei K 8 years ago

Ghana people are not lazy. Yes it is true because the people do not get what they deserve when they work in Ghana. Abroad Ghanaians are declared the most hard working individuals because they get what they deserve and use it ...
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Ghana people are not lazy. Yes it is true because the people do not get what they deserve when they work in Ghana. Abroad Ghanaians are declared the most hard working individuals because they get what they deserve and use it happily. Working all day without meeting the daily bread is heartbreaking. "Nsu to a apentampe anto a apentanpe". I was mad when I came to Ghana to see the workers, It was shocking being mad when I asked a simple question, not me but...?
STEVE 8 years ago

This has been going on for ages,and is time to check the lapses within the public sector. In my opinion, they are been paid monthly for not doing what is expected of them. Is also the main reason why the nations institutions ...
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This has been going on for ages,and is time to check the lapses within the public sector. In my opinion, they are been paid monthly for not doing what is expected of them. Is also the main reason why the nations institutions are not functioning.
Paa Joe 8 years ago

EGYA OPAYIN

UNLESS THE GHANA CIVIL SERVICE ID OVERHAULED ALL OF THESE HEAVY DEFICITS WILL GO ON FOR THE NEX HUNDRED YEARS.

YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT,NONE OF THE SO CALLED PUBLIC SERVICE OFFICERS EVER HAD MIDLE LEVEL PROFFES ...
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EGYA OPAYIN

UNLESS THE GHANA CIVIL SERVICE ID OVERHAULED ALL OF THESE HEAVY DEFICITS WILL GO ON FOR THE NEX HUNDRED YEARS.

YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT,NONE OF THE SO CALLED PUBLIC SERVICE OFFICERS EVER HAD MIDLE LEVEL PROFFESIONAL TRAINING BEFORE BEING ABSORBED INTO THE PUBLIC SECTOR.

IF ALL THOSE WHO WORK AT THE PUBLIC SECTOR DO NOT HAVE PROFESSIONAL TTRAINING, HOW DO YOU EXPECT THE SECTOR TO LIVE TO EXPECTATION.

WHAT THE NATION CONTINUEs TO EXPERIANCE, IS A PRIMITIVE LEGACY HANDED TO US BY THE DEPARTING COLONOAL ADMINISTRATION FORTY EIGHT YEARS AGO.

IS MESSANGER,CLERICAL ASSISTANT, CLERICAL OFFICER,EXECUTIVE THROUGH TO TO CHIEF DIRECTOR BE DEEMED AS A PROFESSIONAL TITLES.

WE STILL HAVE MANY MANY RIVERS TO CROSS.
Alordome Godson Kwashie 8 years ago

Those so called lazy people are those highly paid in the name of paper called masters, phD,etc

Those so called lazy people are those highly paid in the name of paper called masters, phD,etc
Tet 8 years ago

You can't get a PhD if you are lazy.

You can't get a PhD if you are lazy.
Jojo Jumah 8 years ago

VERY VERY VERY TRUE!!!!On Point. Too many lazy people especially political appointees

VERY VERY VERY TRUE!!!!On Point. Too many lazy people especially political appointees
sid 8 years ago

u omitted incompetence top if the parson at the top is incompetent n corrupt n lying how can he control? better sit up let ur deed be seen there u.can accuse others

u omitted incompetence top if the parson at the top is incompetent n corrupt n lying how can he control? better sit up let ur deed be seen there u.can accuse others
Mark Boateng 8 years ago

We're just beating about the bush. Blackman is capable of managing his own affairs. The INDEPENDENCE, is in other way meangliness.

We're just beating about the bush. Blackman is capable of managing his own affairs. The INDEPENDENCE, is in other way meangliness.
Kwao Akuffo 8 years ago

Workers become lazy because of the following : 1. Poor supervision, lack of motivation & poor leadership skills

Workers become lazy because of the following : 1. Poor supervision, lack of motivation & poor leadership skills
Mark Boateng 8 years ago

The blackman is capable of managing his own affairs. The INDEPENDENCE is in other
way not necessary. Because we're just beating about the bush with full of malpractices.

The blackman is capable of managing his own affairs. The INDEPENDENCE is in other
way not necessary. Because we're just beating about the bush with full of malpractices.
Man of Character 8 years ago

Let's all join hands and throw the biggest net so as to fish out the lazy ones. A country led by lazy people is like preparing your soup in a perforated pot. Even the Holy Book says, the lazy hands should not eat. People in t ...
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Let's all join hands and throw the biggest net so as to fish out the lazy ones. A country led by lazy people is like preparing your soup in a perforated pot. Even the Holy Book says, the lazy hands should not eat. People in the Finance ministry should be held responsible for what happened in Accra a few days ago. They know why.
Plasma Kote 8 years ago

We are still sleeping.

We are still sleeping.
Plasma Kote 8 years ago

Correction, correction.

Correction, correction.
ekow nyame 8 years ago

If that is right as it were, then the reason is not far fetched. The post independence and aftermath management of the public sector has and is responsible for this. There is no demand for for service and accountability from ...
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If that is right as it were, then the reason is not far fetched. The post independence and aftermath management of the public sector has and is responsible for this. There is no demand for for service and accountability from those who are put in positions of TRUST. The unholy alliances of staff of same minds of malfeasance and corruption has been the underlying factors. One clear thing in Ghana is that all public sector workers are living beyond their means. Where does the difference come from? Those who have assess to money in their work place spends the time for work on planning how they can steal. Those who don't have the assess use the time to plan how to make the extra money from outside the work place. If you add the times they spend on what they contribute to produce the little for the state and the planning for themselves then one will know that our public sector workers are not lazy at all. God will save Ghana. AMEN.
Kweku Sakyi 8 years ago

In most government offices there are multiple people doing work that could easily be done by only on person. Until the government is willing to get rid of the extra workers, nothing will improve.

In most government offices there are multiple people doing work that could easily be done by only on person. Until the government is willing to get rid of the extra workers, nothing will improve.

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