CLEAN GOVERNANCE
SOE directors should be appointed in transparent process
If we accept that most of our SOEs are in crisis, then we need to change the way we have been doing things
03 July 2019 - 05:06
With the perennial leadership instability at most of our nation’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs), coupled with the resultant decline in public confidence in these institutions, perhaps it is time the government departs from the current practice of appointing both executive and non-executive directors of these parastatals.
All directors, be they executive or non-executive, should in future be appointed through a transparent process similar to the one used when making judicial appointments...
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