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Monday, February 05, 2007

Govt defends $2.7m bill for cronies

Solomonstar news, 5 February, 2007 - 11:11am.
By ROBERT L. IROGA

THE Government has defended its decision to grant a huge increase to its political appointees, which puts some of them amongst the top earners in the country.

Chief of Staff in Prime Minister’s Office, Dr Judson Leafasia said the increases are based on what the government intends to do.Documents obtained showed that political appointees alone have been allocated $2.7m under the 2007 Budget, with the highest notching up to $219,000 per year.

"The payment is unjustified," Leader of Opposition Fred Fono told the Solomon Star on Friday. Mr Fono believes that some of the appointees don’t deserve the kind of payment they are getting.

"For political appointees to be paid that huge remuneration is unjustified. Some of the people are failures," he said.

The Opposition leader is also furious about the huge packages saying that some of them don’t have the qualifications to be paid that much.

But Dr Leafasia said whilst Fono is rightfully concern on the political appointees there is a whole story to that and it started with politicians, which he is a beneficiary. He argued that the government is paying for quality and performance. "At the end of the day your objective is to improve performance," Dr Leafasia said.

"The way we look at is how we can improve our performance in order to improve our living standard, our nation and the life of all Solomon Islanders," he said. He added that the people have the right to expect all public servants paid with government funds to perform.

Dr Leafasia said the benefits are either short term or on longer term basis.Meanwhile, the COS said claims that they wanted the increase because the MPs and permanent secretaries have been given increases is totally wrong.He said their payments were approved after a negotiation process.

Mr Fono said he would oppose the increase as it is a waste of public money.

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