A lawyer acting for businessman Cosmas Mukaratirwa says a criminal case for the alleged supplying of unregistered medicine worth N$650 000 to the government’s Central Medical Stores in 2019 against him has been withdrawn.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Zimbabwean businessman Cosmas Mukaratirwa, the father of the five-year-old whose company initially won a N$1,3 billion medical tender, after he failed to appear in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court yesterday on another matter.
The state has summoned Cosmas Mukaratirwa, the father of a five-year-old child who has been awarded a pharmaceutical supply tender worth N$1,3 billion, to appear in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on 5 December.
The minister of finance and public enterprises, Ipumbu Shiimi, has told parliament that the question of whether minors should be allowed to be shareholders in companies is a matter to be addressed by the Business and Intellectual Property Authority (Bipa) and not the Central Procurement Board of Namibia (CPBN).