Public money is wasted by Dictator Gayyoom

It was shocking to learn in Haveeru Daily on 1st of December, Hon Deen confirming that substantial number of employees in the government in various levels are without any work to do. What stuck my mind first was do we know how many of them are there in the government? When a minister declares in a news briefing, I am sure this is a serious problem and it appears that even the government does not have a clue how dreadful the problem is? And, do we know how long this has been continuing and the amount of revenue that's being wasted? This is totally unacceptable and I cannot see any justification for it.
Furthermore in the news, the most bizarre statement from the Minister, which I found hard to take on board was that this is a wide spread problem in the government and he was proudly defending his ministry expressing it is not specific to Atolls Ministry. And even worse, was his solution. He had suggested the issue be referred to the parliament.

As far as I understand hiring and sacking for government jobs are made only by the President office. And, I do not see the point how this problem can be referred to the parliament. Of course misuse of public resources is a serious crime and indeed this must be investigated and discussed in the parliament. But it is clear that the president's office must take full responsibility for employing these unwanted staff in the government. We need to find out the depth of the problem? How many of them are there? How long this has been going on? What procedures are there for employing? How do they go about creating jobs and why? Was there any planning? A full investigated into the matter is very important and there must be accountability. Someone has to be responsible for misappropriate use of public funds.

If you think about it, first a job can only come into question when only there is a task to be done. Second the recruitment. And for this the most qualified and experience person that is suitable for the task must be recruited. But what seems to be happening for the past 27 years, is this corrupt government employing unwanted staff. So, how can the government function efficiently?

Technically speaking efficiency is a measure of what you get OUT compared to what you have put IN.

What you put in here is the government budget which seemingly wasted on paying the large number of unwanted employees of this crazy regime.

What you get OUT is the public services. But the public services are provided only by a fraction of the hard working minority. Therefore the quality of service is poor. And most unjustly the large budget goes out to pay for the unwanted employees, which means that the hard working, talented and qualified employees in the civil service are not being paid their rightful wages, leading to lower self-motivation and finally gets forced into corruption.

Source: DO