Extension of service

Two top bureaucrats have been given two years of service extension, each right before their retirement, depriving the next deserving senior civil servants on the plea that they are their own unswerving stalwarts (The Daily Star: 13.09.09). It is the repetition of the previous governments' practices. It's a sheer transgression of the civil service norms and discipline. Honourable Prime Minister, being a citizen of this country, I suppose I have the privilege to ask where are the 'days of change' you pledged in your election manifesto?