Mozambique: Government appoints new chairs for AdM, ENH and Tax Authority

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Mozambique: Government appoints new chairs for AdM, ENH and Tax Authority

11:51 CAT | 13 Aug 2024

Amélia Muendane moves from the Tax Authority to Airports of Mozambique, Ludovina Bernardo ceases to serve as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry to chair the National Hydrocarbons Company ENH, replacing Estevão Pale, and Elisa Zacarias is no longer Secretary of State for Tete province and has become the new chairperson of the Tax Authority, replacing Muendane.

The Mozambican Council of Ministers ton Tuesday appointed new administrators for the Mozambican Airports (AdM), the National Hydrocarbons Company (ENH) and the Tax Authority (AT), which will now be led, respectively, by Amélia Muendane, Ludovina Bernardo and Elisa Zacarias.

“The appointment of Mozambicans for the governance, the management of our state business structure, has taken into account, firstly, the need to refresh the administrations we have, bring in new blood, increase speed, and reuse staff”, explained the spokesperson for the Council of Ministers and also deputy minister of Justice, Filimão Suaze, at the end of the ordinary meeting of the Cabinet held ton Tuesday in Maputo.

At this Cabinet meeting, the government approved the resolutions dismissing Estevão Rafael Tomás Pale from his position as chairman of the board of directors of ENH and appointing Ludovina Bernardo to the position.

The resolutions dismissing Amélia Tomás Muendane from her position as chairperson of the Tax Authority of Mozambique and appointing her to the position of chair of the board of directors of Airports of Mozambique (AdM )were also approved, as well as the resolution appointing Elisa Zacarias to the position of chairperson of theTax Authority.

Shortly after the end of this Cabinet meeting, the Presidency of the Republic announced the dismissal, by presidential order, of Ludovina Bernardo – who will be move on to the National Hydrocarbons Company ENH – from her position as deputy minister of Industry and Commerce and, in another order, the dismissal of Elisa Zacarias – who will take over as head of the Tax Authority – from her position as Secretary of State for the province of Tete.

“They are Mozambicans, the institutions are Mozambican, they are professionals with established credentials in the State administration, so there is no problem whatsoever,” insisted Suaze, justifying that the measures “aim to improve the functioning of the institutions.”

Source: Lusa