Whistleblower accepts job offer: govt

By The Nation

 

 

Welfare scam whistleblower Panida Yospanya has been employed by the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) and will start work soon, according to government spokesman Lt-Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd.
 

The deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security has confirmed that Panida accepted the job at the PACC in Khon Kaen.

 

According to the government, Panida said she previously only wanted a job at the Centre for Protection of the Destitute in Khon Kaen so as to be near her parents.

 

Sansern said the executives then told her she had to undergo a civil service recruiting exam and, after she passed, they would take good care of her.

 

The junta spokesman said Panida had misunderstood that she would get the job right away and, when she waited and saw no job coming her way, applied for another job.

 

Sansern said the ministry would accept Panida to work starting in October initially as a service contractor, hired with a lump-sum payment.

 

Sansern quoted Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha saying the government was willing to support good people and instructed its agencies to provide a clear explanation to Panida and her family as well as giving her advice on working for the civil service.

 

His comment was made in response to Panida's earlier comment to reporters during an event to congratulate the outstanding mother 2018 award winners, which included Panida's 53-year-old mother, at Khon Kaen City Hall on Thursday.

 

Panida said she has been working at a hotel after graduation from Maha Sarakham University four months ago.

 

Besides doing the hotel job, she also was studying online for a master's degree with Rangsit University under a scholarship granted by the university rector Arthit Urairat, Panida said.

 

She said she did not regret doing the right thing when she revealed the graft although that posed a difficulty in her job search or some friendships.

 

Panida was among several former and current interns at the Centre for Protection of the Destitute in Khon Kaen who brought the alleged graft to light last year, resulting in a nationwide probe at provincial centres that unveiled a multimillion-baht corruption scandal.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30353437

 

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Congratulations young lady and justifiably deserved. I am sure you will do well.......but watch your back at all times. I can imagine some of those within the civil service corruption industry can be vengeful types. 

46 minutes ago, webfact said:

as a service contractor, hired with a lump-sum payment.

What does that actually mean ? the lump-sum payment ?,

regards Worgeordie

Well done girl. 

can she run for PM?

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

What does that actually mean ? the lump-sum payment ?,

regards Worgeordie

one time brown envelope... no passive income

7 hours ago, worgeordie said:

What does that actually mean ? the lump-sum payment ?,

regards Worgeordie

It means selling your soul to the Devil.

12 hours ago, baboon said:

It means selling your soul to the Devil.

Apt user name

16 hours ago, AtoZ said:

one time brown envelope... no passive income

Not much different from suggesting a change in a production line that saves the company time and money and getting a cash bonus and a promotion.

Look for the story of the guy who got a substantial 'bonus' suggesting to Swan Vestas

( matches ) to put glue and sandpaper only on one side of the box. Glue and sandpaper costs cut by 50% in one move.

I didn't mean it in bad way. She definitely deserves a reward, probably much much bigger than she get.

 

It should be the norm - pay package, and criminal immunity for whistle-blowers. But that would be too dangerous for those who have the powers ?

21 hours ago, worgeordie said:

What does that actually mean ? the lump-sum payment ?,

regards Worgeordie

Say l employ you to wash my cars at 1000.baht a month. I may advance you 6000 lump sum payment of 6 months 

After that I restart your salary and abuse lol

Better to have her inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.

18 hours ago, baboon said:

It means selling your soul to the Devil.

Well, in these trying days one has to get it where they can. 

 

Matter of base survival.