-Wants Liberians Get their Rightful Jobs on Labor Market
The Director-General of the Civil Service Agency (CSA) while saying the Agency is ready to protect Civil servants who demonstrate hard work and good deportment on the work, Honorable Joekai also emotionally expresses concern about the foreigners’ occupation of jobs set aside for Liberians.
Director General Joekai said it is that Liberians, including civil servants and private sector workers become key players on the Liberia’s labor market to contribute to national development as it is done in other countries, saying that the efforts of the CSA under his watch is to make the Liberian civil service the bacon of qualified, professional, efficient and productive people, and not to dump incompetent, unqualified, ineffective and inefficient relatives of bureaucrats.
He admonished civil servants to be demonstrate dedication to the job and dismiss from the fear of been removed the job, stating “DO YOUR JOB, KEEP YOUR JOB” –meaning that no one will dismiss any civil servant as long as the civil servant demonstrate efficiency and commitment to the job
The CSA Director General Made the statement Friday, January 31, 2025 when he served as keynote speaker at the induction Program of the newly elected leadership of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Workers’ Association (MOCIWA) held at the EJS Ministerial Complex in Congo Town, Monrovia.
Those inducted include Oliver V. Sonah, Chairman; Mercy Dupley, Vice Chair for Administration; Emmanuel Teah, Vice Chair for Operations and Moses Y. Kollie, Secretary General amongst others.
In his extemporaneous keynote address, Dr. Joekai vowed to build a civil service that will significantly contribute to the development of the country and asserted that countries that are developed were built by the quality of their civil service, a kind of civil service, he pointed out, the CSA is committed to creating and maintaining for the government’s human resource program.
He maintained that the CSA is already upbeat at building an efficient, effective and productive civil service for the development of the nation, pointing to the automated National Testing Center established at the Civil Service Agency as the start of building a qualified, efficient, competent and productive civil service.
The decision to establish the computer-based National Testing Center, Dr. Joekai said, was informed by the Employees’ Status Regularization project (ESRP) in which data collected discovered that most civil servants are at 45 years or above thereby creating a huge gap for continuation of the viability of the civil service if young people are not trained; and also projected more people with only high school graduates, with a lot more predominantly male than female dominating the civil service thereby indicating disparity of diversity of male to female at the workplaces.
He then noted that it is unfortunate that the Labor Ministry allows foreigners occupying jobs set aside for Liberians without doing nothing about it, challenging the Ministries and Commerce and Industry to collaborate in getting the foreigners off the jobs of Liberians. BKJ
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