MURAMVYA, January 24th (ABP) – The Minister of Public Service, Labor and Employment, Vénuste Muyabaga, on a visit to Muramvya province, made a surprise trip in the morning of Wednesday, January 22, 2025, to various services operating at the headquarters, before meeting with administrative, security and judicial officials as well as heads of provincial and communal services to collect and respond to various concerns, with a view to ensuring progress towards the vision of Burundi, emerging country by 2040 and developed country in 2060, a check by ABP revealed.
During his unannounced entries, the minister in charge of the civil service visited the services of the high court and the prosecution, the provincial education department, the provincial office of the environment, agriculture and livestock as well as those of the Muramvya district hospital. The aim was to verify the regularity of attendance through the signatures of the staff in the related registers, before jotting down his own observations. After this series of surprise trips, Minister Muyabaga, accompanied by the provincial governor, Euphrèm Ndikumasabo, met with the heads of all the services operating in Muramvya province (central-west) for a moralization session, where he answered the questions from the civil servants with a view to addressing the challenges that could hinder the implementation of the vision of an emerging Burundi by 2040 and developed in 2060.
He thus stressed that the contribution of the courageous worker is more than essential to achieve the vision. He expressed his satisfaction because, according to him, the civil servants of Muramvya “do 8 hours of service instead of 8 hours in services, which should be encouraged even in other provinces.”
He spoke about the challenges mentioned by the governor of Muramvya province, including the shortage of teachers, doctors and others, the directors of basic schools who still complain about the irregularity of their standard jobs, the non-replacement on time of promoted or deceased civil servants, the fuel shortage which handicaps the activities of workers and some workers of the MINOLACs factory recently dismissed due to the lack of work to be done since the beginning of the crises in the wheat supplying countries.
The minister in charge of the civil service said that the government is working and is sparing no effort to improve the quality of services. He mentioned that the government is recruiting teachers, health care personnel and even in other services. Regarding the positive results to the complaints of civil servants, the minister of Public Service indicated that following the number of those who made complaints and other civil servants of parastatal institutions, who are waiting for the implementation of the new salary policy, it was necessary to wait until the end of February 2025 to have responses to their grievances. He estimated for this purpose that approximately 85% of the complaints expressed are well-founded.
Note that the coordinators and provincial inspectors of the civil service were present in order to know the complaints of civil servants. This was with a view to removing some of them by avoiding the travel of civil servants to Bujumbura while the ministry responsible for Public Service has provincial representatives, Minister Muyabaga declared.