KUALA LUMPUR – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has called on civil servants to help stamp out the culture of “asking for commissions”.
Speaking at the Prime Minister’s Department monthly assembly in Putrajaya this morning, he said it would take a long time to change such a culture.
“We cannot deny it still happens. I still hear, sometimes, of people asking for commissions from my office, ministers’ offices, and officials.
“This is because it is an old culture and will take a long time to clean out.
“So I ask for your cooperation because when (our) image is good, it will be easier,” Anwar said in his address to department staff while flanked by his two deputy prime ministers, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof.
Just before this, Anwar in his speech talked about the need for a “new approach” in the civil service that was “efficient and clean”.
Being the month of Ramadan, he also spoke on the need for Muslims to not only read the Quran but to understand and practice its teachings.
He said he had proposed to Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali that all departments, ministries and agencies could hold brief religious programmes during midday or Zohor, focusing on a few verses of the Quran. – The Vibes, April 3, 2023
