Not a profession board to save Telekom out of bankruptcy

The current board, promoting the possibility of saving Kosovo's Telekom from bankruptcy, is considered non-professional and not adequate by economic connoisseurs, under which it has the only goal to completely overthrow and destroy PTK.

Arton Demhasey, director of the organisation “Arise”, tells KosovoPress that it is not expected to save Telekom with this current board, for the fact that names on that board, where most of them are still in the political past.

He has taken the chairman of Telekom's board, Besa Shatri-Berisha.

According to Arton Demhasey, the chairman of the Telekom board, is also at work in the Kosovo Energy Corporation(KEK) and a KEK worker cannot save Telekom from banking, because he does not have the right telecommunications qualifications and the right experience for this field.

Not only are political people being named on board but they are being appointed and non-professional people are being named, twice affecting the company's destruction. So even in the concrete case of Telekom, the moment a KEK employee comes, who has a job there, which is not management business and is not professional what the Board is looking for PTK's, then we can't expect this company to clear up, develop and walk away... I can conclude that it's not the intention to save this company, but the goal is completely upside down and completely destroyed”, Demhaya stressed.

Demhayan has said that Telekom has major problems with contracts, with the process of tendering privatisation, and with indictments being made in arbitrage courts.

We now know the problems this company has even with contracts, with the process of tendering privatisation, and with indictments being made in courts and arbitrage. So this is a huge burden to this company, but maybe a slightly more professional and non-political board that doesn't serve politics and serves the company, maybe they had hopes that this company could be saved by a longer time”, he said.

While economics analyst Jakup Bellaqa has also told Kosovo Press that the current Telekom Board does not have professional preparation, as well as lacks preliminary management experience to find a proper solution for this public enterprise, once more profitable in the country.

I doubt that I can save this company that has been very profitable on top of the field, I appreciate that the odds are small for non-profession to save Telekom, and that you can't speed up a large company, because it has to be big and strategic management policies. The board must find productive and successful policies to get out of this” situation, Bellaqa has said.

Otherwise, this is the biography and activity of the members of the Telekom Board:

1. Besa Shatri Berisha, KEK accountant
2. Former Telekom employee Skender Hoti
3. Sead Ujkan, professor at UP Economics School
4. Osman Ejupi, former chairman of the board of Kosovo Competition and Former Dean Authority at Victor College
5. Susan Andjelkovic, former board member at Competition Authority and
6. Fidel Krasniqi, teaching assistant at the University of Pristina -- the Faculty of Electric and Computer Engineering -- which has studied management at the University of Pristina Faculty of Economy.

This board has been named in Telekom by the government in March of this year.

Kosovo Telecom and Kosovo Post have been managed earlier by politics and not professionalism.