After the information appeared that the Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Nenad Nesic allegedly enumerated Bosniaks who went to the Jumu’ah on Friday in his ministry, Nesic himself spoke out and explained what he was doing and who he was enumerating.
Since Friday, some media have reported that Nesic walked from office to office with an armed escort during Jumu’ah prayers and listed Bosniaks who had left their workplace. The source was an email from an “anonymous Bosniak” from that institution. The minister himself responded to this and said that on Friday he knocked on the doors of every office, politely greeted those who were at work, and registered those who were not.
“The number of Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks who were not at the workplace is huge, and in the time sheet, they are properly recorded as present. It seems that both Serbs and Croats went to Jumu’ah, judging by the anonymous emails,” Nesic stated.
Nesic also explained why he did this. Namely, on Friday before noon, as he says, he requested information that he needed to prepare for the meetings in Ohrid, but after more than two hours, the secretary informed him that she could not find the lady who was supposed to deliver the document and that no one knew where she was.
“Namely, that person is of Serbian nationality. I emphasize that this is not the first time that such things have happened. Sometimes it took them half a day to find someone, sometimes a day, and sometimes I couldn’t do my job because the officials simply refuse to hear every request to do something. Well, now imagine if this is how they treat the demands of their superiors, then how they behave towards citizens,” he said.
Nesic said that due to the general irresponsibility towards work that prevails in the Ministry, he decided to go around all the offices and check who was entered in the recorded time sheet as present, but in fact went home to prepare lunch or drink coffee around town, or didn’t come to work at all, and all with the aim of asking department heads this week to remind all employees that they must behave in accordance with the Labor Law in BiH institutions and respect working hours as well as the citizens who pay them.
“My only criteria for employees in the Ministry is work and attitude towards work. As a person, I am disappointed that there are people in the Ministry who try to mask their indolence and negligence by hiding behind national and religious and that something like that is published in the media without any verification. I was brought up to deeply respect other people’s religious feelings and it never crossed my mind to interfere in such sensitive issues, but I can only say one thing to non-workers of all religions and nations that they will respect the Labor Law, come to work on time and leave work on time. Citizens of BiH rightly expect an efficient and responsible administration, and not to pay taxes so that employees in institutions visit markets, go shopping, get haircuts and manicures during working hours,” Nesic concluded, Klix.ba reports.
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