Ministers bossing CEOs

• Who’s in charge debate take centre stage at parastatal forum • ‘Remember, I am your minister’ – Hangala says young ministers are bossing CEOs.

Businessman Leake Hangala says Namibia’s new Cabinet ministers are young, brilliant and well-educated, but they often remind board chairpersons or parastatal leaders who is in charge.

Hangala, who chairs the Namibia University of Science and Technology council, made the accusation in the presence of president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah at a breakfast with public enterprise chief executives yesterday.

“When a chairperson goes there, the first thing the minister tells you is: remember, I am your minister. I am a Cabinet minister. I don’t need to be told that,” he said.

Hangala said Namibia has young, dynamic, good and brilliant ministers.

“At the beginning the discussions were not constructive,” he said.

He said this is because of personalities, citing the importance of creating institutions that do not depend necessarily on personalities.