MANILA, Sept. 2 – President Benigno S. Aquino III has praised the country’s 1.4 million civil servants for their honest and wholehearted service to the public on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the Philippine Civil Service this September.
In his message to the bureaucracy, President Aquino said, “In the past years, you struggled to walk a straight path with great faith and heart-warming public service to the nation.”
Every September, the entire public workforce commemorates the establishment of the country's civil service system in 1900 by the Second Philippine Commission by virtue of Public Law No. 5, or An Act for the Establishment and Maintenance of an Efficient and Honest Civil Service in the Philippine Island.
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) said the celebration is also an occasion to recognize and highlight the significant role of government workers in nation-building. (PNA) scs/JCA