AMMAN — Former Royal Court chief
Jawad Anani launched a scathing attack on the government’s plan to modernize the
public sector.
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In an article published in Ammon News on Tuesday,
Anani said that Prime Minister
Bisher Al-Khasawneh is a wise man, but he has
little experience.
“He intends to do the right thing, but his
intentions find a path to the unknown, and this has been proven by the clear
evidence of the plan presented a few days ago for administrative reform,” wrote
Anani, a former prime minister and longtime minister of economic affairs.
“If the administrative reform is intended to
dismantle some ministries, disengage some institutions, or merge some of them,
then this is what we have tried in Jordan for four decades, during which we saw
a decline in performance, a decline in productivity, and a significant increase
in government costs to taxpayers,” he added.
Every time the proposals for dismantling and
restructuring came from “non-objective people”, or that the subject was not
studied in depth, because governments, including the serving one, did not
provide Jordanians with a single convincing reason that their administrative
procedures are justified.
Anani said the government also failed to explain how
these arrangements serve its performance, or how these incomparable proposals
are compatible with the 2030 vision and contribute to its realization.
The reform should have focused on defining the basic
strategic goals of the economic vision, and building administrative systems
capable of achieving these goals, he added.
He said the government should have ensured that the
relevant institutions, ministries, and departments operate in a way that
maximizes their energy and does not exhaust their efforts.
Instead, he added, “we forgot all this and replaced
it with the following:
Abolishing the
Ministry of Labor and distributing
its functions to departments of other ministries creates a unique
contradiction; … the Ministry of Labor had become very important in regulating
the relationship between employers and workers, and instead of strengthening
the ministry, which was transformed from a department in the Ministry of Social
Affairs into a ministry in 1976, and we now want to abolish it, which is
something that is unparalleled in the world.
Which country does not have a Ministry of Labor?”
Anani asked.
Anani then made the same critique of plans to merge
or abolish other ministries such as creating a Ministry of Education and Human
Resources, or handing the responsibility of social security to be under the
supervision of the Ministry of Industry Trade and Supply. “What decision could
be worse than this decision? How can workers’ rights and welfare be supervised
by the minister responsible for businessmen?” He asked.
It would have been more useful to abolish the
Industry Ministry, which suffers from a
contradiction in its roles between industry, trade, and supply. It would be
more useful to create a Ministry of Industry and Energy, and to transfer the
Ministry of Supply to Agriculture, and to make the Ministry of Commerce into an
independent ministry, Anani said.
He also attacked the proposal to hand over the
responsibility of issuing work permits to the Ministry of Interior. Work
permits should remain confined to the needs of the country. The issuing of
worker permits will become a security issue only, and has nothing to do with
the needs of the country and the various sectors of non-Jordanian labor, Anani
wrote.
This is the tip of the iceberg, and the proposed
administrative reform plan raises the fears of everyone, and their concern for
their future, and the whole plan is a government decision that can be reversed
by another government, Anani added.
“Please stop this joke and reconsider what you are
about to do,” he concluded.
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