Plan to stop 'shotgun' CEO appointments

Minister of public enterprises Leon Jooste is on a quest to curtail the appointment of acting CEOs at state-owned enterprises, saying the shotgun approach currently employed by boards of SOEs is not opportune.Namibian Sun last week sought to understand whether there were efforts on the part of his ministry as chief overseer of commercial enterprises to fast-track CEO appointments.As it stands, the Meat Corporation of Namibia, partial SOE MTC, Air Namibia and the Namibia Airports Company are without permanent CEOs, while it has taken TransNamib almost three years to appoint a new CEO.Jooste told Namibian Sun that the matter was a concern and that his ministry had taken control of the situation.“We are equally concerned about this matter. Many of these situations resulted from a shotgun approach on CEO suspensions and we have managed to arrest this situation after we issued a directive preventing suspensions unless ministerial approval has been granted,” said Jooste.He further acknowledged that it was often difficult to appoint a new permanent CEO while the current one was still on suspension. “The problem is that a substantive CEO cannot be appointed while a current CEO is on suspension. The situation has fortunately improved, with both Meatco and MTC busy with their recruitment processes, the TransNamib CEO has been appointed and the Namibia Airports Company CEO recruitment process will commence in due time,” Jooste said.“The NAC is a unique case. We started an investigation into the NAC and discovered that there was corruption. We handed a report over to the Anti-Corruption Commission and the NAC board. The board will continue with the investigation and appoint an interim CEO,” Jooste said.Air Namibia has been operating without a CEO since the dismissal of Theo Namises in 2014. The national airline is currently headed by lawyer Mandi Samson.The NAC is now temporarily headed by former presidential spokesperson Albertus Aochamub, while Meatco's acting chief executive is Jannie Breytenbach.OGONE TLHAGE

Plan to stop 'shotgun' CEO appointments

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Namibian Sun 2025-07-14

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