{"id":38250,"date":"2023-01-30T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/city-wants-kanime-to-pay-back-the-money"},"modified":"2023-01-30T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:23:57","slug":"city-wants-kanime-to-pay-back-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/city-wants-kanime-to-pay-back-the-money","title":{"rendered":"City wants Kanime to pay back the money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Windhoek City Police chief Abraham Kanime\u2019s 2020 employment contract, which has been clouded in controversy, was the focal point on Friday during a lawsuit in which his employer wants him to pay back the income earned.<\/p>\n

The city council wants the High Court to order Kanime to pay back the salary<\/p>\n

he was paid as a result of an unlawful employment contract that he was purportedly given in April 2020.<\/p>\n

The council is claiming nearly N$4.5 million in remuneration and N$906 804 in motor-vehicle allowances that the city had paid Kanime over a period of three years.<\/p>\n

They also want a return of the monthly N$40 490 he was paid as housing allowance during the same period.<\/p>\n

On top of the money that the council wants to be returned, they also seek a review and setting aside of the management council\u2019s decisions taken on 28 and 29 April 2020. These decisions include the appointment of Pahukeni Titus as acting CEO, as well as a decision to extend Kanime\u2019s contract for another three years.<\/p>\n

The management committee at the time comprised Fransina Kahungu as chairperson, and Moses Shikwa, Loide Kaiyamo,<\/p>\n

Emmanuel Paulus, Teckla Uuwanga, Ian Subasubani, Priska Kahuure, Ananias Niizimba, Hileni Ulumbu and Agatha Ashilelo. In April 2020, New Era reported that Kanime, who resigned from his position on 30 January 2020, was furnished with a new employment contract. It was said he had landed a three-year contract worth about N$6.6 million.<\/p>\n

Kanime\u2019s pay package included a yearly basic salary of at least N$1.4 million, car allowance of N$302 000, housing allowance of N$492 000, and an additional annual<\/p>\n

bonus of N$116 000.<\/p>\n

Council documents indicated at the time that he was handed the new contract to avoid uncertainty and a leadership vacuum at the City Police.<\/p>\n

Court arguments<\/p>\n

On Friday, the city\u2019s lawyer Patrick Kauta argued that the issue at hand is the interpretation of the High Court\u2019s order of 19 November 2020.<\/p>\n

In the said order, Judge Thomas Masuku ordered that the settlement agreement reached between Kanime and the council on 19 November 2020 be<\/p>\n

made an order of court.<\/p>\n

According to the agreement, \u201cCouncil shall appoint the 10th respondent (Kanime) and\/or another as Police Chief regularly, as per regulation 5(1) of the Regulations of the Municipal Services made under the Police Act, 19 of 1990\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kauta said the order invalidates council\u2019s resolutions of 29 April 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also invalidates the employment contract of the applicant signed on 30 April 2020,\u201d he contended.<\/p>\n

The lawyer argued that the order directs that the process starts afresh in a rightful manner because the initial<\/p>\n

process through which Kanime was awarded the employment contract in April 2020 was unlawful \u2013 although the order did not \u201cexpressly\u201d declare that.<\/p>\n

Thus, Kanime must pay back the money, as it was paid to him under the \u201cunlawful\u201d employment contract of 30 April 2020.<\/p>\n

However, Kanime\u2019s lawyer, Sisa Namandje, said Masuku\u2019s order does not set aside the council\u2019s resolutions of 29 April 2020, nor does it invalidate<\/p>\n

Kanime\u2019s employment contract.<\/p>\n

He noted that the relief that would invalidate council\u2019s resolutions in<\/p>\n

relation to Kanime\u2019s employment contract was not incorporated into the settlement agreement which was made a court order by Masuku.<\/p>\n

According to Namandje, Kanime is employed on a fixed three-year contract, through which he renders his services and is meant to be compensated accordingly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that the applicant (Kanime) worked for three years is irreversible. Therefore, restitutio will be a legal impossibility because the applicant for three years, on the instructions of the 1st respondent (Council), carried out his work as an employee, and had to be paid as a matter of law,\u201d submitted Namandje.<\/p>\n

He added that the application makes no sense, as the council continues to use Kanime\u2019s services as chief of the City Police. Thus, he maintained, the application must be dismissed.<\/p>\n

Judge Hannelie Prinsloo is expected to deliver her verdict on 29 May.<\/p>\n

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