Dear Editor,
I want to draw your attention to the flight of poor civil servants with poor salaries deemed lowest in the world. Civil Servants cannot afford house for their entire career as civil servants.
The Social security and Housing Finance Corporation is a disgrace and have betrayed the purpose for which they were established for. The lands they issue are beyond the reach of Gambian civil servants.
The government should endeavour to made the necessary changes to give the civil servants the opportunity to afford land for their families before retirement. The SSHC has failed the Gambians miserably.
Many people are leaving the civil service to join the parastatals and the private sector for better renumeration and batter conditions of work like medical health care for their families and other incentives
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For the government to get the desired outputs it yearns for it has to motivate and evaluate the salaries and incentives of civil servants with those from the private sector and parastatals there will always be frustration and low morale for government employees.
Your paper is widely read in the Gambia and beyond please help and publish this piece.
