Angula resigns from finance ministry

DEPUTY executive director at the finance ministry Ally Angula has resigned from her top government position, almost a year after her appointment.

Finance minister Calle Schlettwein confirmed the resignation to yesterday.

Today is her last working day at the ministry.

“I can confirm that we worked very well together. For me, her departure is a great loss to us,” he added.

Sources familiar with this matter said Angula resigned from the ministry last month. It’s unclear why she resigned, but a person briefed about this issue said Angula has clashed with a clique of older officials in the ministry who were against her reforms.

There has been speculation for years that a certain group of senior officials call the shots in the finance ministry. She was seen as an outsider, to the extent that they clashed at most meetings, a source said.

Some of Angula’s key tasks included managing the state account, and national budgeting. She was also the chairperson of the public-private partnership committee in the finance ministry.

According to an advert placed in local newspapers last year, the position comes with a basic salary ranging between N$555 000 and N$590 000, as well as housing allowance and other benefits to the occupant.

Angula is known for being plain-spoken, and has over the years put down her foot when politicians tried to meddle into operations of organisations she led. reported last year that she resigned from the state-owned Namibia Post and Telecom Holdings (NPTH) because she rejected political pressure to approve a N$1,1 billion network tower deal.

“Due to continued governance flaws and failures by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology in the running of the NPTH group, which has compromised performance as well as led to decisions taken that have destroyed value in some of the NPTH subsidiaries, I am left with no option but to resign as a board member of the NPTH, as well as chairperson,” Angula wrote to minister Stanley Simataa on 27 March 2018.