No 'Little Napoleon' In Civil Service Please, Says Abdullah
Bernama – 14/4/2006
PUTRAJAYA - No 'Little Napoleon' in civil service please.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Friday warned a small group of civil servants who were trying to show power by delaying implementation of the country's development projects.

"There is no need to show how powerful you are by delaying things. There are people who held back files, and there are people who held back decisions," he said during the Ministry of Finance monthly assembly, here.

"We don't want to have 'Little Napoleon' in the civil service showing power by delaying things, for example, just to teach that person a lesson," said Abdullah who is also the Finance Minister.

Although the group involved was small, he said, the government did not want the few to cause problem to so many people.

(Little Napoleon is often described as one who is pugnacious, arrogant and abrasive, especially a person in power, having features like Napoleon Bonaparte, an absolute ruler in France during the late 18th century.)