By NATION REPORTERAPPOINTMENTS should be based on merit and not tribal balancing, former National Citizens Coalition national secretary, Simataa Simataa has said.And Mr Simataa urged the new regime to come up with a Fast Track Human Resource Court to hear and decide on matters pertaining to individuals perceived or claiming to have been unfairly dismissed by the previous government before they were reinstated because some might have been guilty of wrong doing.Mr Simataa said tribal balancing was in itself tribalism because competent individuals for a particular position would be denied an opportunity to take it up because of their tribe.“Some people will be eliminated from their positions based on their tribe and not incompetence just to bring in people who are minority in that particular setting,” he said.He said in an interview that the appointing authority ends up appointing incompetent people to certain positions in an effort to maintain tribal balance.Mr Simataa however said appointments […]
‘APPOINT ON MERIT NOT TRIBE’
