12 ministries welcome new secretaries-general
PETALING JAYA: Twelve ministries welcome their new secretaries-general who are either rotated or promoted.
Chief Secretary to the Government Datuk Seri Dr Ismail Bakar said all of them received their letters of appointment from him on Thursday.
He said the posts were filled following mandatory retirement and expiry of service contracts.
“The appointments are crucial as the civil service is an important backbone of the country’s administration,” he said in a statement yesterday.
The rotated secretaries-general are Datuk Seri Saripuddin Kasim from Transport Ministry to Federal Territories Ministry; Datuk Seri Alwi Ibrahim (Home to Public Works);
Datuk Dr Mohd Gazali Abas (Education to Home); Datuk
Dr Tan Yew Chong (Water,
Land and Natural From left: Resources to Primary Industries); and Datuk Isham Ishak (International Trade and Industry to Tourism, Arts and Culture).
Also involved in the rotational placement are Datuk Zurinah Pawanteh (Primary Industries to Water, Land and Natural Resources) and Datuk Lokman Hakim Ali (Youth and Sports to International Trade and Industry).
Former Malaysian Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York Datuk Seri Muhammad Shahrul Ikram Yaakob is now the Foreign Ministry secretary-general.
The new Transport Ministry secretary-general is Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman who was previ- ously the ministry deputy secretary-general (Policy) while Datuk Muez Abdul Aziz is the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry secretary-general.
Previously, Muez was the ministry deputy secretary-general.
Women, Family and Community Development deputy secretary-general Dr Waitchalla R.R.V. Suppiah was appointed the Youth and Sports Ministry secretary-general while Perlis State Secretary Datuk Dr Syed Omar Sharifuddin Syed Ikhsan was made Education Ministry secretary-general.