There is a lady functioning as the deputy head of a money-making State undertaking who had to engage seven females as her private secretaries within a one- year period, they say.

This arrogant lady, typical of political appointees, is said to be such a terror to other female aides, every girl who assumed duties as her private secretary had quit the job a few weeks after assuming it, being unable to put up with her vicious attitude.

The lady is so heady with the political clout she wields, she does not give due respect to the head of the undertaking either, they say.

Once she had to lock herself inside her office room for several hours to escape the wrath of a crowd of heckling and jeering trade union activists.