The Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Judiciary Pius Bigirimana has written another book titled “Unchained: A Public Servant with a Private Sector mindset.”
This website has learnt that Mr Bigirimana will launch the book on Friday afternoon in Kampala.
The message of the book can be reduced into one sentence: “A Public Servant can deliver the best possible quality of Public Service if he or she takes on a Private Sector mindset.”
The author contends that the idea of Public Service is not alien or novel to Uganda’s socio-cultural topography. Public Service has, in fact, been the cultural responsibility of individuals to do their part in sustaining the health, wealth and overall success of their communities ever since clan and tribal groupings were constituted.
The pre-colonial administration framework, set up by our ancestors, onto which the colonialists built their own aims and interests, still lives with us. It offers a good point of view from which to understand the soul and meaning of Public Service. With a clear “why”, the “how” and “what” of Public Service is not derived from temporal, monetary gains associated with pay cheques.
Such Public Service will, more usefully, be like a seed springing from a vision and reason for its existence whose value sits higher than money or financial reward.
The book helps the reader to develop a more comprehensive understanding of Public Service in Uganda. Such an understanding should not be limited to factors that revolve around a single, present-day individual worker. It should be a wholistic product of a proper interpretation of the historical, cultural and political character of Public Service.