From
spiritual sexual favours to bicycles, wines, and pineapple tarts #1, does it
mean the quality of corruptions in Singapore drop to a new low level for civil
servants?
This
shows and proves corruption can happen in every level to every one whether senior
or junior and whether high pay or low pay. When the PAP government designed the
high compensation system for ministers and senior civil servants, they
certainly underestimated how low the corruption standard and level could go.
So,
the next time, when you hear about corruption cases, it may involve toilet
papers, pencils, A4 papers and many other small items.
However,
for this corruption case of pineapple tarts, I am particularly interested to
know what is the duty and responsibility of a Chief of Protocol? Chief of Protocol is the most senior officer
to give first hand advice and knowledge to the government for a right diplomatic
protocol.
Why
is he just arranging small things like pineapple tarts and serving the right
wines? These jobs can be easily done by a junior staff. So, are we overpaying our senior civil
servants for performing junior staff’s job?
Or,
is it a case of putting talents in small uses? (大材小用).
And
how serious are the situations in Singapore civil service for underutilizing
talents and over paying them? (Is the high salary policy just to keep talents
in civil service and make sure they don’t join the private sectors? But in fact,
in practice its aim is just under use their talents.)
If
the Chief of Protocol is only good at arranging tarts and wines, then I am very
worry about the right arrangement of diplomatic protocol at MFA.
Let’s
take a look at the US and see what happen there:
[The Office of the Chief of Protocol seeks to advance the foreign policy goals of the United States by creating an environment for successful diplomacy. Our team extends the first hand that welcomes presidents, prime ministers, ruling monarchs, and other leaders to our country. By serving on the front lines of diplomatic engagement, we promote cross-cultural exchange and build new bridges of understanding between people and governments around the world.]http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/
If
our Prime Minister is getting few times higher salary than President Obama, I think
our Chief of Protocol should not be getting a lower pay than the US Chief of
Protocol. And their Chief of Protocol
is not arranging pineapple tarts or wines but to seek a ‘successful diplomacy’.
Why is PSC not
making an official statement on the bond breaking issue?
I
still cannot understand why a PSC’s scholarship matter#2 is not clarified by the
Public Service Commission? Can an MP
represent PSC and issue a statement?
What
kind of protocol is this?
Is
PSC also acting like the Chief of Protocol caring only small things like pineapple
tarts and wines? Talents working in PSC are again only for small uses (大材小用). And they leave the ‘small
talent for big job’ (小材大用) to the MP.
Is
using MP to make a PSC’s clarification a right protocol? Perhaps I don’t know the meaning of protocol, and
the big or small uses of talents.
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