Civil servants are already facing stern action, not for slandering the government but for telling the truth.

This is according to veteran newsman A Kadir Jasin, who responded to the call from Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Minister Azalina Othman Said for  stern action against civil servants for "slandering the government".

"I don’t really understand what the minister meant by stern action because many civil servants had already been sacked, terminated and transferred, not for slandering the government, but for telling the truth and doing the right thing," Kadir said in a blog posting today.