Only critical positions will be filled: OPM

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) will fill critical positions only in efforts to curb its wage bill, the deputy minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Samuel Ankama, has said.While motivating the OPM’s budget allocation of N$459.4 million in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Ankama said one of the nine strategies to contain the growth of the wage bill is to only fill crucial positions once vacant, with the approval of the cabinet secretary. “This strategy works in tandem with the business process reengineering programme. Posts which are insignificant are not filled,” he said. The programme is one of the tools the OPM developed and implemented to ensure appropriate governance framework and compliance in all offices, ministries and agencies. It falls under public service management, which the OPM is set to spend N$64.6 million on. Another strategy within the same programme, under the human capital management system, is to reduce daily subsistence allowances from the actual N$280 million to an estimate of N$236.6 million.Domestic and foreign travel, with the exception of essential trips, will remain restricted and overtime payments will be controlled as well, he said. Other programmesAnkama said N$27.9 million is allocated to improving the constitutional obligation of the public service commission programme, which accommodates the Public Service Commission. The commission advises the government on staffing, disciplinary and staff misconduct cases, as well as human resource policies. The deputy minister added that 93% of the decisions taken during October 2017 and September 2018 in cabinet were implemented, which translates to 160 decisions. The OPM has assigned N$ 16.7 million to the improvement of the cabinet administration support management programme to monitor and evaluate the implementation of these decisions.This programme provides secretariat support to cabinet and standing committees’ work and also ensures proper record keeping. The OPM has also set aside N$19.7 million for the coordination and administration of the government leadership programme, while N$123.5 million will be used for coordination of the disaster risk management programme under which the drought relief assistance falls. Meanwhile, the improvement of public service information technology management programme that deals with the implementation of notification systems such as e-Death and e-Birth will receive N$76.4 million, whereas the improvement of policy coordination and support services programme is set to get N$130.2 million, said Ankama. - Nampa

Only critical positions will be filled: OPM

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