{"id":301708,"date":"2021-03-01T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=301708"},"modified":"2021-03-01T17:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:17:17","slug":"windhoek-municipality-is-also-in-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=301708","title":{"rendered":"Windhoek Municipality is also in arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marthina Mutanga<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>THE City of Windhoek last week switched off the electricity supply to some government institutions while being in default themselves.<br \/>This was done while the CoW owes NamPowre and NamWater N$94 million and N$54 million respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Calle Schlettwein revealed the state of affairs at the municipality of Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To take action to enforce payment is legitimate, but one should not do it with dirty hands,\u201d Schlettwein said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windhoek-Municipality-is-also-in-arrears.jpg\" alt=\"Windhoek Municipality City electricity supply government institutions\" class=\"wp-image-301709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windhoek-Municipality-is-also-in-arrears.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windhoek-Municipality-is-also-in-arrears.jpg 150w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windhoek-Municipality-is-also-in-arrears.jpg 36w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Windhoek-Municipality-is-also-in-arrears.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Pictured: Mayor of Windhoek, Job Amupanda. Photo: File<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In reaction to the revelation by the minister, the Mayor of Windhoek, Job Amupanda said that to access university a person must first pass Grade 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shouldn\u2019t you pay first so that the CoW can pay its creditors? The municipality is placed in that position because Ministers like you failed to lead and take responsibility. Employees of the CoW are working hard to clean up the mess you people have created. Those outstanding funds are those they found,\u201d Amupanda said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amupanda noted that there are arrangements in place between the CoW and NamWater and NamPower to ensure payment of the outstanding debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":301709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windhoek Municipality is also in arrears - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE City of Windhoek last week switched off the electricity supply to some government institutions while being in default themselves.\" \/>\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=301708\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windhoek Municipality is also in arrears - 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