28 January 2021 | Crime
HAPPIER TIMES: Bright Ndera and girlfriend Clodin Mutsvario with their daughter Mercy Hope Ndera.
PHOTO: CONTRIBUTED
CONNECTED: Police on Tuesday discovered the bodies of a 32-year-old Zimbabwean woman and her seven-month-old child.
Photo: NBC
Ester Kamati
OTJIWARONGO
The Otjozondjupa police has linked a Zimbabwean man who died in a head-on collision on Tuesday to the murder of a woman and her child - whose bodies were found a few kilometres down the same road.
The 50-year-old deceased, identified as Bright Ndera, is suspected to have been fleeing after murdering 32-year-old Clodin Mutsvairo and seven-month-old Mercy Hope Ndera when the crash claimed his life.
28 January 2021 | Justice
BUMPY RIDE: Sacky Shanghala is flanked by his Fishrot co-accused James Hatikulipi and Tamson ‘Fitty’ Hatuikulipi.
Photo: Contributed
JEMIMA BEUKES and MATHIAS HAUFIKU
WINDHOEK
Government is assessing a request by former justice minister Sacky Shanghala for the Office of the Attorney-General to either provide legal representation or pay his legal fees in the ongoing Fishrot bribery case.
Shanghala has been in jail since November 2019 and his assets, including his bank accounts, have been frozen as part of an investigation into allegations that he and his cohorts facilitated and accepted bribes worth millions of dollars in exchange for fishing quotas.
Louw responds to Fishrot affidavit
THE concept National Equitable Economic Empowerment Framework (NEEEF) bill was abused by players in the Fishrot corruption scandal to facilitate amongst others a vehicle for money laundering on an epic scale.
In an official response to the affidavit by lawyer, Marén de Klerk, that hit headlines and gave birth to a new debate on the Fishrot debacle, the Managing Director of Seaflower Pelagic Processing, Adriaan Louw lifted the lid on how he was duped into thinking that the deal between the Namibia Fishing Corporation (Fishcor) and African Selection Fishing Namibia (ASFN) was above board and for the benefit of the Namibian people.
STAFF REPORTER
WINDHOEK
Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) secretary Ephraim Nekongo yesterday said he did not know that the N$65 000 allegedly deposited into his personal account in 2017 through De Klerk, Horn & Coetzee (DHC) Incorporated, a defunct law firm accused of disbursing N$75 million allegedly laundered from Fishcor, was linked to what is now called the Fishrot bribery scandal.
Nekongo, speaking on Namibian Sun s The Evening Review show yesterday, said he did not know anything about Fishrot until the scandal was laid bare in the press in late 2019.
Citing the fact that the matter is now before court, Nekongo flatly refused to state what the money was for, saying he would only divulge details if he was summoned before court or if the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) requested answers from him.
19 January 2021 | Crime
DODGY OBJECTIVES: Former fisheries minister Bernard Esau (centre) and former Fishcor CEO Mike Nghipunya (left) are currently in jail awaiting trial. PHOTO: NAMPA
STAFF REPORTER
WINDHOEK
Stier Vente Associates, external auditors for beleaguered state fishing company Fishcor, only reported the suspicious Fishrot-related transactions to the Public Accountants’ and Auditors’ Board (PAAB) on 21 February 2020, long after the scandal had been reported in local and international media.
Namibian Sun understands that Stier Vente Associates, in its submission to PAAB - a statutory board regulating the accountancy profession in Namibia – claimed it had been misled by former fisheries minister Bernard Esau, who said the money was taken out of the company to fund ‘government objectives’.