Yemen Times hosts the fifth media forum [Archives:2004/751/Community]

Wednesday June 16, Taiz- Yemen Times organized at Taiz governorate' s building the Fifth Media Forum. The forum hosted Mr. Abdul Sallam Al-Hazme, Director General of the Office of the Ministry of the Civil Service in Taiz, and Mr. Saeed Mohamed Amer, Vice Director of Accounting Unit and representative of the Finance Ministry in the governorate.
Mr. Emad Al-Saqqaf, Director of Yemen Times' office in Taiz and Hodiedah and Editor-in-Chief of “Family and Development” magazine, Mr. Mohamed Ali Saad, Editor-in-Chief of “Al-Jumhoreyah” newspaper, and Mr. Abdu Bakr Al-Aze, President of Information Center also attended the forum.
The forum's session was chaired and effectively administered by Mr. Mohamed Ali Saad.
At the beginning, the director of the civil service ministry office reviewed the issues and cases related to the implementation of Republican Decree No.1 related to finger printing and digitized photo for state's employees in order to prevent double employment.
Mr. Al-Hazme indicated that his office had received 13443 job requests competing for 569 job openings in the city, including 3 at “Al-Jumhoreah Publishing Corporation”, 15 at “Al-Hayat Corporation” and 74 administrative jobs at Taiz University.
He said, “The availability of jobs depends on strict standards centrally set by the Ministry regardless of the number of graduates in each governorate. Despite the high number of graduates for example in Taiz, more than other cities of the Republic, there are only 500 new state job openings for Taiz city next year. Each new job is granted to a citizen based only qualification, year graduated and the necessity for a new employment at any region, similarly to the mechanism used by the Ministry of Education.”
With regards to rumors that new jobs are actually sold before they are distributed, the director of the civil service office rebuffed such a practice. He assured them that the rumors are baseless as the jobs are granted to merited individuals no mater how some try to cheat the ministry by obtaining identification cards from designated areas for new employment. The ministry also checks place of residence and place of birth. In short, there are specific measures to allow the ministry to ensure equal access to available vacancies. Moreover, the names of the newly hired citizens would be published in official newspapers to confirm the fair distribution of new vacancies offered by the state every year.
“There is absolutely no chance to grant anyone a new job based on a phone call, a recommendation letter or a behest from any person or state official, not even from a minister, a governor or anybody. New jobs are granted only according to qualifications and other standards set by the Ministry of the Civil Service”, said Mr. Al-Hazme.
Mr. Saeed Mohamed Amer, Vice Director of Accountant Unit and Representative of Ministry of Finance in Taiz Governorate, on his part, highlighted some of the difficult problems normally and consistently facing the Ministry of Finance and its branches in the governorates of the Republic. He referred to the high number of state employees for example at the Ministry of Education that could be attributed to the slow process at the Finance Ministry in handling the financial matters of the Education Ministry and alike.
An open discussion session followed that could be categorized as sincere and more transparent, as depicted by the director of the civil service, in examining some of the administrative bureaucracy and problems that usually hinder the development of administrative procedures in order to serve society. To overcome many of these problems requires the collective efforts of all state officials, citizens and civil society organizations in order to achieve the ultimate objective that the state's various corporations are corruption-free and more sincere in the implementation of their duties and missions.
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