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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday challenged the new Deputy Minister of State Administration and the Public Service, Albano Macie, to speed up the review and use of various legal instruments that offer incentives to state employees so that they can provide a better service.
Macie fills the post left vacant last September by Roque Silva, who left the government to become General Secretary of the ruling Frelimo Party. Macie is an expert on administrative law and a lecturer in the law faculty of Maputo’s Eduardo Mondlane University. Last year Nyusi appointed him a member of the government team that was negotiating matters of decentralisation with the rebel movement Renamo.
“The country is reviewing the legal instruments applicable to sate functionaries and agents”, said Nyusi, at the ceremony swearing Macie into office. “Revising these documents is intended to empower state employees.”
He added that some legal documents concerning state workers have yet to be approved, and the delay in approving them could affect the functioning of public institutions.
“I urge you to make your contribution so that shortly these instruments are finalised and made operational for the good of the public administration and of society”, the President told Macie.
He added that it is also crucial to improve the recruitment of staff for the administration. “We should not only recruit the best, but we should guarantee that they remain in the state apparatus”, said Nyusi, addressing the problem of the flow of highly trained and skilled cadres out of the state and into the private sector or NGOs and international agencies, where they are often paid much more and enjoy better working conditions.
“We should reflect on how to motivate state employees”, Nyusi added.
Nyusi also swore into office Rafael Rohomoja as an adviser in the President’s office. Rohomoja is a veteran of the national liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule, and a former director of the publicly-owned telecommunications company, TDM.
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