No qualified personnel for top BURS post

 BURS headquarters at CBD PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
BURS headquarters at CBD PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Parliament is concerned that government is failing to fill in the vacant position of Commissioner General of Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) over a year since it became vacant in 2018.

The post has been vacant since December 2018 following the departure of Keneilwe Morris. Morris has not been replaced with a substantive head. Before he left, Morris had been at the helm of the tax agency for about eight years following his appointment in 2010. Segolo Lekau succeeded him on an acting basis. This week, some Members of Parliament (MP) were unimpressed with the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Dr Thapelo Matsheka’s response that they are unable to identify a suitable candidate to fill the post.

Matsheka said the position has been advertised twice, first in September 2018 and then again in December 2019.

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