The Public Service should be depoliticised, according to retired Permanent Secretary (PS) Hydar Ally, who yesterday expressed regret at not taking a back seat in the political realm while on the job.
“Maybe I should have kept a lower political profile but that is easier said than done… I don’t want to at this point try to make excuses. I think it is a violation of the principle of the impartiality of the public service and maybe I stand guilty as charged,” Ally said during testimony to the ongoing Commis-sion of Inquiry (CoI) into the public service.
Ally was a long-serving permanent secretary under the former PPP/C government and also at the same
