{"id":20909,"date":"2018-10-18T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.informante.web.na\/?p=20909"},"modified":"2019-01-22T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T05:25:04","slug":"mutorwa-reinstates-vugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=20909","title":{"rendered":"Mutorwa reinstates Vugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 945px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Page-3-3rd-story-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mutorwa reinstates Vugs\" width=\"945\" height=\"934\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">APOLOGISED: Minister of Works and Transport, John Mutorwa _ Photo: Contributed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THE Minister of Works and Transport, John Mutorwa, has conceded that he has indeed unlawfully fired Beverly Vugs from her position as a member of the Namibia Airports Company\u2019s Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Tuesday, Mutorwa explained that he did not follow procedures before giving Vugs her marching orders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAfter a careful and critical consideration of Vugs\u2019 Founding Affidavit, particularly as they relate to the provisions of the Companies, I concede that: some provisions of the said Act, might not or could not have been scrupulously and fully adhered to, neither appropriately considered,\u00a0 during the process of taking the decision to remove Ms Beverley Vugs as a Member of the Namibia Airports Company\u2019s (NAC) Board of Directors,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He further stated that, consequently, Vugs has been reinstated as an Ordinary Board Member of the NAC, with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Namibian lawyer, Sisa Namandje, who is representing Vugs, stated that the minister did not follow statutory peremptory procedures relating to the removal of the directors in terms of the Companies Act of 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Namandje further stated that equally, in respect of the appointment of new members, the minister did not, as required, follow the procedures provided for in terms of the State Owned Public Enterprise Governance Act including the publication of a notice in the Government Gazette of the appointment of new directors.<\/p>\n<p>Mutorwa, however, maintained that both Dr Leake Hangala and Advocate Irene Visser, were finally appointed permanently by himself after considering advice and recommendations by the Minister of Public Enterprises, Leon Jooste.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDr Leake Hangala was not appointed through a press release. He was appointed in accordance with the relevant applicable provisions of the applicable laws, such as the Namibia Airports Company Act the Companies Act and Public Enterprises Governance Act,\u201d Mutorwa explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Minister of Works and Transport, John Mutorwa, has conceded that he has indeed unlawfully fired Beverly Vugs from her position as a member of the Namibia Airports Company\u2019s Board of Directors. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Mutorwa explained that he did not follow procedures before giving Vugs her marching orders. \u201cAfter a careful &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mutorwa reinstates Vugs - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Minister of Works and Transport, John Mutorwa, has conceded that he has indeed unlawfully fired Beverly Vugs from her position as a member of the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=20909\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mutorwa reinstates Vugs - 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