The Executive Director of the State Interest and Governance Authority, Stephen Asamoah Boateng, says Chief Executive Officers of State Owned Enterprises risk sacking if they underperformed at the end of the 2021 fiscal year.
71 out of the 126 state enterprises today signed a performance contract which allows for assessment and evaluation of their work at the end of the year.
The appraisa according to Mr. Asamoah Boateng is to make the state enterprises competitive and profit making oriented.
Document available to Joy News suggests that 47 enterprises failed between 2016 to date to submit their annual financial statement, in flagrant disregard of the financial management Act.
Also as at the end of 2019, only 14 of state enterprises had complied with the Finance Minister’s directive to do so.
But SIGA, the umbrella body of state enterprises, is hoping to change the narrative.
Mr. Asamoah Boateng said the various punitive measures in the performance contract that will push the CEO to comply with laid down rules including exercising good corporate governance.
”We at SIGA have the authority to recommend for the termination of contract of any CEO that fails to deliver and beyond the call for dismissal we can also ask the appointing authority [Office of the President] to block bonus payment or salaries. And we believe this will push them to work efficiently” he hinted.
On the lack of compliance with the Public Financial Management Act, Mr. Asamoah Boateng said those erring state enterprises have been given time to comply, blaming the anomaly to the coronavirus pandemic
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