THE government plans to stop appointing chairpersons and chief executive officers of state owned enterprises (SoEs) to allow competent individuals battle for the posts.
Currently, the president and ministers fill the vacancies through handpicking people of their own choice, a system blamed for unaccountability and inefficiency in public offices. Finance and Economic Affairs Minister William Mgimwa said in Dar es Salaam that the government wants to reverse the system and fill the top posts in SoEs through merit based candidature to increase efficiency and productivity of public firms.
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