ADDIS-ABABA (Halbeeg News) – The Commissioner of Ethiopian Investment Commission, Belachew Mekuria on Tuesday resigned from his post.
Mr. Belachew was appointed to the position by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in April this year during a reshuffle that saw Fitsum Aregaa, now PM Abiy’s chief of staff, leave his position as commissioner of EIC for the PM’s office
In an interview with Addis based newspaper, Addis-Standard, Mr. Mekuria said he stepped down for family reasons.
“I am leaving the Commission for family reason who I wasn’t able to be with due to my work and who do require my full attention and presence that the responsibility I have had made it impossible,” he said.
Speaking about his achievements during his tenure of the chairmanship, Mr. Mekuria noted that they have started a very strategic conversation in strengthening the industry called Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).
“The past few months have largely been preparations for the new budget year including the design of our annual work plan, developing the Balanced Score Card (BSC) document and of course delivering in some of the key ongoing works,” he stated, “One interesting thing we have initiated relates to transforming the office set up into a new open workstation type that would further improve our service delivery at the Commission.”
Prior to joining the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), Belachew Mekuria, Ph.D., had worked for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime coordinating justice sector reform project in Nigeria.
He was also a founding member of Bahir Dar University Faculty of Law where is served as a lecturer and the Faculty’s first Dean and had taught law at Addis Abeba University, St Mary College and Unity University.
Halbeeg News and Addis Standard
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