Stupidissmart,
I do not need to name names, many senior posts in government are
reserved for elites connected to the government. There is a
clandestine elite club somewhere which determines who get what
senior posts. Very often these senior posts were filled by party
insiders.
There is no open system to determine the quality or ability of
such connected candidates and these connected elites were not even
interviewed by an independent panel to evaluate the real ability
and potential for such positions.
MPs and ministers may be politicians who may be selected from
their own internal system. However positions of ministers and
senior civil servants and senior positions in GLCs should be more
open as they are paid by public funds and should be people who are
independent so that they will by loyal to citizens and not to power
that be.
If senior chief justices, CEOs, permanent secretaries, and
certain senior civil servants were chosen based on political
loyalty it will bring about cronyism which is bad for the
country.
Let all public positions like these be chosen by meritocracy by
an independent panel unconnected to the party of leaders.
Talking about meritocracy, it is therefore up to now only a
facade or hypocrisy. There are many people outside the party with
higher qualifications and abilities. But senior positions like CEOs
and permanent secretaries are only limited. Without opening such
positions to all the thousand of good people outside the
connections are being bypassed so how can we claim such a system a
real meritocracy?
