The current controversy on the issue of the Under Secretary and the political Assistant could hardly come to an end even with the line up of the Under Secretary & the Political Assistant and the apology from the Chief Executive in front of the cameras yesterday. The average citizen like me has already put a question mark on the capabilities of our Government Officials in this current affair.
Put the passport and right of abode aside, just on the pay, it is hard to convince oneself that it could not affect the morale and the mentality of the senior civil servants and the legislators. I expect there will be a lot of silent conflicts behind the scene which could lower the overall efficiency of the Government. Though I am coming from the private sector and have never put my hand or foot into any political affairs in Hong Kong, I do understand a simple concept of equality and opportunity. Mr. Lam Sui Lun said that most of the appointees are coming from good academic background by either graduating from top universities in UK and US and worth the price to pay out from the public coffer. Does it mean academic background is equal to ability?- I have serious doubt of it. I tend to agree good academic background could stand a good chance to perform better later on, but does it mean we need to pay such a high remuneration at the very beginning to one who are without the actual experiences on the job and the future performances are yet to be seen. I wonder what is the future bench mark of the performance of these appointees??? Could the Government let us know??? Also,I have an impression these appointments are based on the close relationships with certain officials rather than going through an unbiased process of selection.
I understand the motive of the appointment of the second tier of Undersecretary and the political assistant is to help to sell policies to the public and legislators in an effective and promising way. The political selling strategy is to let the second tier to pit the field fist and if the lobbying fails, the first tier then comes into play. As such, the game hopefully could last a bit longer with a higher successful rate. It sounds logical but the real stumbling block is ignored. In fact, the real issue is coming from the relationship between the Legco, Execo and the Administration. The increase of the number of tiers or even the incumbents are selected from the big political camps from the Legco, in my opinion, could not help to improve in the current political environment that can save the hazzle of the Government. How to improve, will inform you later on.......
As said before, in the past up to end of May I was an advocate of the pro-government camp but now put I have second thought in the upcoming Legco election in Autumn.
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