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Livestock procurement executive appointed as Meatco acting CEO

The Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco) board has appointed Patrick Liebenberg as the acting chief executive officer (CEO) for six months, or until a substantive head is hired.

This follows Meatco publishing and then withdrawing a vacancy for the CEO position, as the contract of the current head of the company, Mwilima Mushokabanji, is set to conclude at the end of January.

Liebenberg, who will start from 1 February, is currently the executive for livestock procurement and production.

This was confirmed by board chairperson Sakaria Nghikembua on Friday afternoon.

Meatco’s human capital executive Amorey Pote on Thursday said the vacancy was published on Meatco’s LinkedIn page in December, but subsequently removed.

Pote referred further questions to Nghikembua, who did not respond to calls and messages to him since Monday.
However, on Friday, he said the board would issue a statement soon.

The Namibian reported in August that a Cabinet resolution stated that the decision not to renew Mushokabanji’s contract was contrary to the Cabinet’s conditions for approving the Meatco board.

However, the Meatco board previously noted that it would not renew his contract.

At that time, both Cabinet secretary George Simataa and Nghikembua referred questions to finance and public enterprises minister Iipumbu Shiimi.
When asked about the Cabinet resolution last week, Shiimi referred The Namibian to the ministry’s spokesperson, Wilson Shikoto.

Shikoto on Friday reiterated Shiimi’s earlier response that the ministry is not the competent authority to consult about Cabinet decisions.

“The contract of the CEO position and the recruitment of the CEO position is being handled by the board and, therefore, any question in that regard should be directed to the board,” he said.

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