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About 200 Hong Kong civil servants face dismissal for refusing to pledge allegiance to city and mini-constitution
- Civil service chief Patrick Nip reveals procedures have been completed and his bureau received declarations from city’s 180,000 public sector workers
- Nip says the government will lose faith in those who cannot accept such basic responsibilities as signing the declaration
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Around 200 Hong Kong civil servants face dismissal after refusing to take a new oath of allegiance to the city mandated by the government.
Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen revealed on Monday the new procedures were completed last month and that his bureau had received the declarations.
All 180,000 civil servants have been required to sign a declaration since October that they will uphold the Basic Law, the city’s mini-constitution, bear allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, be dedicated to their duties and be responsible to the government. Senior civil servants, such as department heads, have also been asked to take an oath.
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But about 200 employees refused to make the pledge, Nip said, adding that he did not have further details on their identities.
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“If civil servants refused to sign the declaration to accept and bear such basic responsibilities, then we will lose faith in them,” Nip said.
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