Act­ing Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) CEO Jee­van Joseph has moved swift­ly to re­as­sure em­ploy­ees that there will be no fur­ther re­trench­ments at the util­i­ty.

He has al­so re­it­er­at­ed that no ex­ist­ing staff mem­bers lost their jobs in the purge of top ex­ec­u­tives on Wednes­day and that this sta­tus quo will be main­tained while the util­i­ty un­der­goes a lead­er­ship tran­si­tion.

“No in­cum­bent WASA em­ploy­ees were ter­mi­nat­ed. All ex­ist­ing staff have re­tained their po­si­tions,” Joseph stat­ed in his first of­fi­cial in­ter­view since as­sum­ing the post with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.