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Cabinet Secretary seeks to explain ‘Fuzzy’ debacle

May 15, 2009 News

“Good things don’t last forever,” Dr. Roger Luncheon said yesterday when he described the relationship been the NCN Board of Directors and the management of the entity.
Commenting on the recent suspension of Chief Executive Officer, Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur, and the Board’s decision to rescind the suspension, Dr. Luncheon said that the Board and the management of NCN have been working well together over the years.

Asked whether the intervention by President Bharrat Jagdeo in the matter would cause Sattaur to believe that he is ‘above’ the board, Dr. Luncheon said that the present issue has to be discussed in the context that ‘one always has to accept that good things don’t last forever.’
He told the media yesterday at his weekly press briefing that the Board of Directors sets the policy and management executes it.

“I do not believe that NCN and the Board of Directors and the way they operate depart from any significant way from convention. The board provides policy and the management and the agency execute.”
These policies, he said, are provided in both general and specific instances either from the Minister of Information or from the Board to the management. The Minister of Information is President Bharrat Jagdeo
“The issue of who is responsible for instituting discipline again has a convention that sees its application in repose in the management at appropriate levels.”

The case of discipline for management and senior functionaries, he noted, has to be done by the board according to the convention under which it operates.
“In this instance the board made a decision on disciplining a senior functionary and that decision was rescinded by the board…I want to believe that the decision being rescinded was on the basis of an examination by the sector of all of the merits of the board’s action.”

Earlier this week, President Jagdeo, intervened and consequently caused the Board of Directors of NCN to rescind its decision to suspend Sattaur.
Chairman of the Board, Dr Prem Misir, in a letter, informed Sattaur that his suspension was being rescinded and that he should ignore the letter issued to him on May 12, last, which outlined his suspension.
On Tuesday last, Sattaur was suspended for ‘insubordination,’ having refused to carry out a decision made by the Board of Directors.

He had resisted the efforts of the board to re-hire radio producer Mazrul Bacchus, whom he had fired two years ago. He was also cited for disrespect.
A source told Kaieteur News that Sattaur was openly disrespectful to members of the Board.
Sattaur had reportedly held the view that the Board should not intervene in the hiring and firing of staff at NCN.
The CEO is also known to incur the ire of staff members, who expressed disapproval about his style of management.

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