Public sector workers to be given handbooks on Code of Conduct

Workers in the public sector are to be provided with a handbook on the “Code of Conduct” for public servants soon, Mrs Janet Fofie, a Commissioner of the Public Service Commission (PSC) has said.

Mrs Fofie announced this at a workshop organized by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in Ho on Thursday for heads of departments to discuss the Code of Conduct for public servants.

The Code of Conduct was launched by the Vice President in December 2009.

She said the Code fell within the constitutional requirement to ensure public servants behaved properly.

Mrs Fofie said after the distribution of the handbooks there should be no excuse for any public servant to plead ignorance for infringing the principles.

She said public servants were subject to the protection of the Commission if victimized for insisting on doing the right thing as demanded in the handbook.

On the issue of gifts, Mr Richard Quayson, a Commissioner of CHRAJ insisted that it was wrong for any public servant to receive any object or cash from a client or patron for providing a service for which one was employed.

Source: GNA