In the latest press release (065) made public last Tuesday, the Minister, Special Advisor and Spokesperson for the President of the CTRI, Ulrich Manfoumbi Manfoumbi, announced the appointment of a provisional administrator of the Gabonese Energy and Water Company (SEEG) at the end of the next Council of Ministers. And the number one of the CTRI, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguéma, called on Friday for a round table of the transitional government to be held this Saturday in Libreville. There is therefore no doubt that the identity of Joël Lehman Sandoungoult’s successor at the head of the SEEG should be announced at the end of the said Council of Ministers.
“The placing under provisional administration and the appointment of a provisional administrator at the next Council of Ministers” is among the eleven (11) shock measures taken by the president of the transition, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguéma, to begin to “to alleviate the frustration of the population, caught in the spiral of supply cuts and power cuts that have punctuated the operation of SEEG for many years”Colonel Ulrich Manfoumbi Manfoumbi had then announced.
The Council of Ministers convened this Saturday, a weekend day, a very rare occurrence, should therefore consecrate the appointment of this “providential man”called to no longer be reissued “the weaknesses and management errors which continually deteriorated the quality of the water and electricity service, plunging SEEG further into a multifaceted crisis each year”according to the uncompromising analysis made by the CTRI.
The appointment of the new provisional administrator, just like the promised appointment of the director in fatigues (member of the CTRI) of security and the fight against fraud, are, so to speak, scrutinized by public opinion, in that they must determine in the short and medium term the pace of implementation of the reforms recommended for getting SEEG back on track; at a time when audits and investigations intended to shed light on the governance deficits at the Gabonese Energy and Water Company are intensifying.
Other reforms taken by the CTRI in favour of the return to good fortune of the SEEG concern the overhaul of the organisation chart with more national verticality and an organisation focused on efficiency, simplicity and control, with technical profiles; the transition from 51 directors or similar to 14 and 21 divisional directors; as well as the renegotiation of the debt with a repayment plan.
It was also announced the digitalization and securing of the entire IT system and the overhaul of the customer journey; the reduction of the treatment of executives and managers (the new scale applies to the provisional administration); the establishment of an operation “1 Gabonese – 1 meter” in order to resolve the nagging problem of meter availability; the gradual standardization of meter models to have only one model in the long term and the replacement of doubtful meters.
The current CEO of SEEG, Joël Lehman Sandoungoult, is part of the cohort of the first heads of public and parapublic companies appointed by the transitional president the day after he took power. He inherited a situation that was, to say the least, catastrophic, characterized by glaring delays in terms of structural investments.
Last May, the Director General ”outgoing” had made it known during a hearing at the transitional national assembly that 475 billion were needed to renew the investments of SEEG which had more than 250 million CFA francs of supplier debts and that the State, SEEG’s first customer, owed the company more than 72 billion.
Feodora Madiba
2024-08-31 01:00:05
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