The Gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day fired Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) CEO Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day in a ma­jor up­per-man­age­ment shake-up at the au­thor­i­ty.

New­ly in­stalled chair­man Roshan Bab­wah con­firmed the move, as he re­vealed that Hal­l­i­day was among 10 top-lev­el ex­ec­u­tives whose po­si­tions were ter­mi­nat­ed. The oth­er ex­ec­u­tives were hired to deal with the con­tentious trans­for­ma­tion plan im­ple­ment­ed by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion, which has been re­scind­ed by the Gov­ern­ment. How­ev­er, they were not named.

The an­nounce­ment comes just two days af­ter Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath pub­licly de­scribed Hal­l­i­day as “a failed CEO” dur­ing his con­tri­bu­tion to the de­bate on the Mid-year Bud­get Re­view in Par­lia­ment on Mon­day.