When will Hardap get a CEO?

SALOMON WRITES:

My mind is boggled at the free reign that the line Ministry has lent to the Hardap Regional Council Chairperson Mr. E Wambo.

It is unexplainable that a critical position, that of a Chief Regional Officer remains vacant for close to seven years. In the meanwhile, a politician who should be serving his constituency has conveniently personified himself as the definite CRO.

I am dumbfounded at the lethargy on the part of the line Ministry (Urban and Rural Development) which in my view allows the abuse of elected individuals to double as an administrative officical in chief cum politician – what a mockery or did the Government of Namibia declare the Hardap Regional Officer position as superfluous on the organogram?

The position in question was advertised last year, July 2018 and to date not interviews were held. I wonder whose job it is to cause Hardap Regional Council to appoint or recruit a substantive Chief Executive Officer.

The intentional delay in filling the position invites suspicions such as, is this perhaps something sinister which someone for some reason wishes to be kept under wraps or is the blatant disregard of the statuary elements governing recruitment in Namibia, not applicable to Hardap Regional Council.

May I call upon the Ministry to intervene in order remedy the situation at the Council? If for reasons orchestrated and unknown the time for recruitment lapses, on whose cost should the position be advertised again?

I think the honorable thing that the Ministry should do is to take charge of the situation by requesting for all documents pertaining to this position and to see it through to a logical and transparent conclusion.

This is to remind the Urban and Rural Development Ministry of its oversight function to ensure that procedures and processes of recruitment are applied indiscriminately.