DEPUTY Secretary to Cabinet in charge of administration Dr Oliver Kalabo says cleaning up the civil service is not an easy task because the damage was done over a long period of time. Dr Kalabo argues that the country is coming from a toxic environment where the previous government had politicised the civil service, including the higher level. Last week, former Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Sketchley Sacika urged President Hakainde Hichilema to consider appointing a commission of inquiry to look into the operations of the civil service, parastatal organisations, and state-owned enterprises. Dr Sacika said in his view, the President’s biggest struggle was not the economy but how to fix the country’s dysfunctional government system. He said nothing had...
