Challenges of Civil Service Political Neutrality

A synopsis on the development of public administration in Ethiopia has evidenced that the country started to introduce European type of administrative system after the victory of the Battle of Adwa over a powerful metropolitan European power. Thus far, the country has undergoing multi-dimensional political and economic reforms. Oromia region is one of the nine states formed in the early 1990s as the foundation of state governance has changed from a highly centralized apparatus to a decentralized federal structure. However, the ongoing reforms and situation has not offered “indisputable ground” for the development of good governance in the region. Because, like many regions in the country, most of the institutions and proclamations related to good governance in the Oromia region seem to be full of challenges and problems. Civil service proclamations and institutions are seen one among those that are not transformed from being simple cogwheels unquestionably carryout the wishes of politicians.