Some
staff members of the National Water and Electricity Company might have their
services terminated if the recommendation of an independent consultant brought
in to assess the company’s fiscal discipline is approved.
The National Water and Electricity Company Limited
has been asked to make redundant some 45 members of its staff following a staff
audit of the company by “an independent consultant” to ascertain whether the financial-deficient
state-owned company is overstaffed.
As part of the recommendations at the end of the
assessment, the consultant says the public utilities provider should make redundant
45 staff, as it was discovered that the services of these people are “obsolete”
and “can be outsourced” to save the heavily-indebted company some cost
associated with salaries to retain much needed revenue.
To find out whether Nawec will heed the
recommendation of the consultant and make redundant the 45 staff, when and which
areas they are working within the Nawec units, Gambia News Online spoke with Nani Juwara, commercial director of the company, who
said the report is an internal one and the recommendation is yet to be effected,
hence prefers not to make any comment on it.
