MBA a must for permanent secretaries
Nov 25, 2007
Permanent secretaries and their deputies will be required to have a Masters in Business Administration, President Yoweri Museveni has announced.
By Joyce Namutebi and Cyprian Musoke
Permanent secretaries and their deputies will be required to have a Masters in Business Administration, President Yoweri Museveni has announced.
The measure is meant to ensure that civil servants have business skills. “These civil servants whom we have are going to be retooled.
For anybody to be Under-Secretary or Permanent Secretary should have an MBA,†he told journalists at the closure of the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit yesterday.
The President noted that the decision on civil servants had been taken after the 2006 general elections but it was not implemented because of CHOGM.
“After this, we are going to implement it so that all civil servants get exposed to business training,†Museveni said.
He was responding to a question on whether Uganda’s civil service was sufficiently equipped to facilitate the investors he had lobbied for during the Commonwealth meeting.
Asked why the war in northern Uganda was not discussed during the meeting, the President said the conflict had ceased ever since the rebels were forced out of the country.
“There is no conflict now. The terrorists fled two years ago to eastern Congo.
“They are there, not as tourists but because they realised they could not stay in Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan.
“While there, they are busy fighting among themselves and groups are coming out,†he said. Museveni was referring to reports that Kony has killed his deputy, Vincent Otti, and several other commanders, and that dozens of LRA fighters have contacted the UN mission in Congo in recent days with a view to surrender.
The President stressed that the conflict was not between the LRA and the Government, but between Uganda and Sudan.
“This conflict was not a war in Northern Uganda.
“This was a proxy war waged on us by Sudan. Of course we also retaliated, we were not just sitting.â€
He said Uganda was engaged in peace talks with the LRA, as requested by the Acholi leaders and the Government of Southern Sudan.
“But whether the peace talks succeed or not, they will not come back because we have the capacity to deal with them, like we did when they escaped to Eastern Congo,†the President said.
The Commonwealth outgoing Secretary General, Don Mckinnon, described the CHOGM as having lived up to the expectations.
Of the 53 Commonwealth countries, 48 attended the meeting, he said.
Absent countries were Fiji, Pakistan, Nauru, Vanuatu and St. Lucia.
Permanent secretaries and their deputies will be required to have a Masters in Business Administration, President Yoweri Museveni has announced.
The measure is meant to ensure that civil servants have business skills. “These civil servants whom we have are going to be retooled.
For anybody to be Under-Secretary or Permanent Secretary should have an MBA,†he told journalists at the closure of the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit yesterday.
The President noted that the decision on civil servants had been taken after the 2006 general elections but it was not implemented because of CHOGM.
“After this, we are going to implement it so that all civil servants get exposed to business training,†Museveni said.
He was responding to a question on whether Uganda’s civil service was sufficiently equipped to facilitate the investors he had lobbied for during the Commonwealth meeting.
Asked why the war in northern Uganda was not discussed during the meeting, the President said the conflict had ceased ever since the rebels were forced out of the country.
“There is no conflict now. The terrorists fled two years ago to eastern Congo.
“They are there, not as tourists but because they realised they could not stay in Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan.
“While there, they are busy fighting among themselves and groups are coming out,†he said. Museveni was referring to reports that Kony has killed his deputy, Vincent Otti, and several other commanders, and that dozens of LRA fighters have contacted the UN mission in Congo in recent days with a view to surrender.
The President stressed that the conflict was not between the LRA and the Government, but between Uganda and Sudan.
“This conflict was not a war in Northern Uganda.
“This was a proxy war waged on us by Sudan. Of course we also retaliated, we were not just sitting.â€
He said Uganda was engaged in peace talks with the LRA, as requested by the Acholi leaders and the Government of Southern Sudan.
“But whether the peace talks succeed or not, they will not come back because we have the capacity to deal with them, like we did when they escaped to Eastern Congo,†the President said.
The Commonwealth outgoing Secretary General, Don Mckinnon, described the CHOGM as having lived up to the expectations.
Of the 53 Commonwealth countries, 48 attended the meeting, he said.
Absent countries were Fiji, Pakistan, Nauru, Vanuatu and St. Lucia.