On Friday Turkmenistan President Gurbangulu Berdymohammadov fired Energy Minister Geldi Sariyev for failure to do his work properly, reported Turkmenistan TV channel.
President has signed the decree at the session of the government.
“ We have been occupying position of Energy Minister over a year and during this period you have had three reprimand to poor job. But work of the Ministry has not improved ether,” Berdymuhammadov told Sariyev.
President said the population, heads of various institutions, organizations and plants have complained about poor power supply, failure to observe the Ministry’s plans and that the power stations cannot work at full capacity for technical reasons.
Berdymohammadov also said that the check-up have proved lack of control over power consumption in the provinces and as a result a great number of consumers, who use power illegally.
President has appointed Dovranmammad Rejepov, who occupied position of Deputy Energy Minister, as new Energy Minister.
Geldi Sariyev has occupied position of Energy Minister since March 2014. He received the last reprimand a week ago for frustration of the plan of currency incomes of the Ministry.