By Zephania Ubwani
In Summary
- There are fears that the mass exit will have adverse effects on the operations of the EAC if the vacant posts in the executive organ of the regional bloc are not filled promptly.
- The recruitment of the general staff as well as professionals working for the EAC and its organs and institutions is normally done on a quota system, which ensures each of the five member countries - Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda.
The East African Community (EAC) secretariat has made a plea
to partner states to unanimously agree on lifting a freeze on the
recruitment of new staff with the imminent mandatory retirement of 52
professionals.
There are fears that the mass exit will have adverse effects on
the operations of the EAC if the vacant posts in the executive organ of
the regional bloc are not filled promptly, The Citizen has been told.
The pending exit of 52 professional staff at the Secretariat
from next month to November next year has caught the executives at the
EAC at a crossroads as to how it is going to fill vacancies to ensure
the operations of the EAC was not crippled by the “mass exit”.
A recent retreat organised in Moshi for the permanent/principal
secretaries in the EAC Affairs ministries from the five partner states
was told that the secretariat should be allowed to commence the
recruitment process immediately to fill the positions.
“The Secretariat was tasked to develop a smooth transition plan
to ensure the operations of the EAC are not adversely affected by the
mass exit,” a note from discussions at the meeting made available to The
Citizen said.
However, sources indicate that the moratorium on the recruitment
has also affected the general staff working in the two other organs of
the EAC, which are the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) and the East
African Legislative Assembly (Eala) as well as nearly a dozen
institutions under the EAC scattered in the region.
The four-day strategic retreat recommended that the Arusha-based
Secretariat through which the expenditure budget of the entire
organisation is channelled, be allowed to recruit and fill in the vacant
general staff positions within the approved budget.
The recruitment of the general staff as well as professionals
working for the EAC and its organs and institutions is normally done on a
quota system, which ensures each of the five member countries -
Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda.
It emerged that professional and the general staff from South
Sudan, which was recently admitted as a new member of the EAC, was put
aside until the country’s ‘full admission’ was confirmed by the
ratification and depositing the instruments of ratification of accession
to the EAC, latest by October 1, 2016.
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