12 November 2008
Maputo — Mozambique's Minister of Public Works, Felicio Zacarias, has sacked the general director of the National Roads Administration (ANE), Eusebio Siquela, after little more than a year at the post
According to a short press release from the Ministry, Zacarias took this decision after receiving a proposal to that effect from the ANE board. He promoted Nelson Nunes, the former projects director of ANE, to fill the place left vacant by Siquela, also on the proposal of the board.
Siquela, who was formerly an official in the Interior Ministry, was appointed ANE general director in June 2007, after the post had been publicly advertised.
As usual in such matters, the dispatch from Zacarias gave no reasons for sacking Siquela. However, a source on the ANE board, cited in Wednesday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais", said that Siquela had "performed badly" and had "never adapted" to an area which he was not familiar with.
The same source claimed that he had "inexplicably" left several road rehabilitation projects without funding, and that he did not have a healthy working relationship with his colleagues.
The recruitment of the ANE general director by public tender was a measure imposed by the foreign donor community. Zacarias' appointment of Nunes to the post is a return to the former method of choosing senior staff for the ANE.
The five member ANE board consists of appointees from the Ministries of Public Works and of Transport, and of the Confederation of Mozambican Business Associations (CTA).
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