Applicants fail to score enough marks to qualify as CSC member

The candidates who applied for membership of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to replace CSC President Mohamed Fahmy Hassan, have failed to score enough marks to qualify as a member of the commission, and the matter has thus been forwarded to the parliament floor for a decision.

The report submitted to the parliament, by the Parliamentary Committee on Independent Institutions which assessed the candidates who applied for CSC membership, states that none of the candidates interviewed by the sub-committee scored above the required 75 percent marks.

No candidate can therefore be nominated to the parliament to be elected as a member of CSC, says the report.

The committee also requested the parliament to make a decision on this matter.

The committee said that only three out of the six applicants met the requirements of a CSC member stipulated in the CSC Act.

They are Fathimath Reenee Abdul Sattar, Ahmed Adheem and Zakariyya Hussain, who were invited for interviews and received 66.65 percent, 62.25 percent and 66.75 percent marks respectively.

The three applicants who did not meet the requirements are Ibrahim Shabau, Azleema Ahmed and Fath’hulla Ismail.

MPs were divided in their opinions when the committee’s report was submitted to the parliament.

Some MPs said that Fahmy cannot be replaced as long as it is not confirmed that his seat at the CSC has become vacant. Deputy Speaker Ahmed Nazim responded by saying that it had been announced by the parliament that Fahmy’s seat at CSC had become vacant.