Every worker in the public service is to be provided with a handbook on the "Code of conduct For Public Servants" soon.
The book is handy enough to be carried around for quick references.
Mrs Janet Fofie, Commissioner of the Public Service Commission (PSC), said this at a workshop organized by the Commission on Human Rights and
Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in Ho for heads of departments to discuss the Code of Conduct for public servants, launched by the Vice President in
December, 2009.
She said CHRAJ and its collaborators did not dream the code up but that the code fell within the constitutional requirement to ensure public
servants conducted themselves properly.
Mrs Fofie said with the hand book there should be no excuse for any public servant to plead ignorance for infringing the principles.
She said public servants at all levels were under the ambit of the Commission and 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, said 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.