Usamate’s insults unfair and unfounded: Vosarogo

Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources Hon. Filimoni Vosarogo has described comments attributed to Opposition MP Hon. Jone Usamate about civil servants “sitting there doing nothing” as insulting, unnecessary and irresponsible.

“To walk through a Government ministry, see someone sitting at a desk and conclude that people have nothing to do is an extraordinary way to judge the performance of an entire workforce.

“A few seconds of observation tells you absolutely nothing about an officer’s workload, what they have completed that day, what they are waiting on, or the work taking place electronically, in the field or through Government systems that Hon. Usamate simply does not see.

“I am fairly certain Hon. Usamate has not observed the daily work of every civil servant across every ministry and department in Fiji. He therefore has no reasonable basis to make such a sweeping generalisation.

“If Hon. Usamate has evidence of officers who are not performing, then he should produce it. But he should not insult thousands of hardworking Fijians on the strength of casual observations while walking through Government offices.

“Our civil servants should be assessed on their actual performance and results, not on whether they happened to look busy at the precise moment an Opposition MP walked past their desk.

“Hon. Usamate is a former Minister. He knows very well that the work of Government extends far beyond what can be seen from an office corridor.

“Fiji’s civil servants deserve better than this kind of careless generalisation and unfounded insults.”

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