Africa-Press – Namibia. Deputy prime minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says there is no record of the party receiving the “so-called Fishrot money”.
Responding to a question from Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani, she could not give information on whether Swapo had received N$44 million from a horse-mackerel quota that former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau allocated to the party in 2017.
Venaani’s question referred to the testimony by former National Fishing Corporation of Namibia (Fishcor) chief executive officer Mike Nghipunya during a bail hearing in the Windhoek High Court earlier in the day.
Nghipunya said a horse-mackerel quota of 18 800 metric tonnes was allocated to Swapo for an election campaign of the party in 2017, and N$44 million was paid to the party though the accounts of two law firms, Sisa Namandje & Co and De Klerk, Horn and Coetzee Inc, after the quota had been sold to Karee Investments 180.
Swapo had an elective congress in November 2017 at which President Hage Geingob was elected as party leader. Nandi-Ndaitwah said in her capacity as a Swapo vice president, to the best of her knowledge, and in terms of the records that are in the hands of the Swapo secretariat, they have no records of that the party received the “so-called Fishrot money”.
“So therefore, whoever is having that evidence, our books are there to be investigated for one to know. That is all I can say, because that is all I know,” she said.
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