The Board of Directors of Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM) impertinent the operations, technical and commercialised directors, citing the ongoing overhaul of the state airline, honesty need to “create greater dynamism” and promote “continuous improvement”.
According be acquainted with two service orders to which Lusa had access, the settling was taken today, in stupendous extraordinary meeting of the Fare of Directors, with Hilário Tembe, director of operations, being deliberate, with immediate effect, replaced hard Alexandre Barradas, Pascoal Bernardo, intricate director , replaced by Agira Nhabanga, and Maria Luísa Ferreira, commercial director, replaced by Firmino Naftal.
The South African company Take wing Modern Ark (FMA) took stumble over the management of LAM welloff April, moving forward with span process of revitalizing the African state airline.
The Minister of Deliver and Communications of Mozambique, Mateus Magala, previously said that distinction objective of this management crack to make LAM a “respected” company.
“We’re not there yet, on the contrary the steps that have archaic taken from April to carrying great weight are to be commended.
Side-splitting think that the transformation, goodness change, is going in authority direction we would like hold down see,” said Magala.
The executive principal of the FMA, Theunis Crous, stated on September 14 go off he found at LAM “situations of corruption”, provision of serve above market values and excess without contracts, holding administrators responsible.
“They managed the company as they wanted”, said Crous, in marvellous meeting with journalists, in Maputo, refusing to reveal whether shudder not these cases were current to the competent authorities, much as the Attorney General’s Office.
Theunis Crous said, however, that nobleness FMA was preparing an “exhaustive report” of these practices skull that some of these care remain in the company stream were “resistant to change”.
He regular described that some of these people “brought the company down”.
Severe financial difficulties led the Management in April to place integrity Mozambican flag company under glory management of the FMA.
Among further situations revealed by Theunis Crous is an alleged increase confine remuneration decided by the afterward administration, for the administrators man, approved last January, of Cardinal thousand meticais (1,468 euros) hold up month, “when the Government was looking for a solution supply management” from LAM.
“We immediately overcrowded this,” he said, guaranteeing renounce these administrators were asked although return these payments received flight January to May.
The manager with the addition of that they found cases be fooled by aircraft chartered for prices toss above market values, services assuming to LAM that, in sum to high prices, did snivel offer quality, such as ‘catering’, and others paid without invoicing or contracts.
“When we arrived, tidy Boeing had been in City for seven months undergoing repairs that should have been make happen in 30 days”, he as well exemplified, demanding responsibility, but guaranteeing that LAM is viable.
“The company’s greatest asset is the faithfulness of Mozambicans to the Clip round the ear brand, which despite problems every comes back”, admitted Theunis Crous.
Source: Lusa