The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) should be commended for striving to streamline wrongs that have been taken for granted for a long time. One of the thorny issues is the allowances paid to government employees for doing the very work which they were hired—and are paid—for. What has emerged is an increasingly lucrative per diem industry in the civil service.
While facilitating government employees to discharge their duties by paying them a little money is okay, it should not be abused. It is a shame that some workers in the government and its agencies are more interested in allowances than in carrying out their tasks.
