Annual general report of the controller and - Parliament of Tanzania

10.6 Employment of DHRA without required qualifications
After demotion the former DHRA as demonstrated in the
preceding paragraph, the Board of Trustee on its 33 rd
meeting held in July 2005 appointed a new Director of
Human Resources and Administration for the term of
service of three years without considering the requirement
of fund’s manual on necessary qualifications which requires
any person holding the post of Director to have necessary
academic qualifications of a Master’s degree or equivalent
qualifications and desired field experience of at least 7
years. Audit scrutiny revealed that the new Director holds
only BA-degree which could not be substantiated because
review of personal files both open and confidential found
no academic certificates and employment procedures in
respect of the person holding the post of the Director of
Human Resources and Administration. The circumsntance
implies mismanagement of the posts of Directors. We are
of opinion that Board of Trustees should review its earlier
decision of recruiting the current DHRA as ascertain of her
qualifications and competence to job. Further, it should
take initiatives to ensure the post of the Director of Human
Resources and Administration is occupied by competent
person with relevant academic qualifications.
10.7 Non compliance with recruitment procedures/rules
It was noted that some appointments or new recruitments
did not follow the outlined procedures. The weaknesses
revealed include, recruitment of people who have not
attained the required academic qualifications and
experience, recruitments not advertised, employing
without interviewing and recruiting over aged officers. It is
obvious that with such biases, which are against
recruitment regulations, an organization cannot get honest
employees with the required skills, experience and
competency. High staff turnover was an obvious outcome
of the biased employments. These weaknesses were found
to be common in NSSF, TSN and TPA.
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