Martin Endjala Landless People’s Movement (LPM) have approached law firm Weder, Kauta and Hoveka to help the party challenge the constitutionality of ministerial powers in the Local Authorities Act of 1992 and the legality of directives issued by the minister to local authorities. The party’s Operative Secretary Dawid Eigub, yesterday gave directives to all local...
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has asked a Cameroonian lawyer who has been convicted of fraud in the United States (US) to advise on and review Namibian petroleum contracts. This decision is seen as the ministry bypassing the Office of the Attorney General. The lawyer, NJ Ayuk, also known as Njock Ayuk Eyong, is...
Staff Reporter THE bail application of former Fishrot minister, Bernard Esau, and co-accused Nigel van Wyk resumed in the High Court, where the credibility of the state’s key witness, Jóhannes Stefánsson, was questioned after he was labelled a self-confessed criminal who also embezzled money from Samherji, a company linked to the Fishrot scandal. Florian Beukes...
Staff Reporter FORMER Fisheries Minister and FishRot accused, Bernard Esau, told Judge Kobus Miller of the High Court on Monday morning that the state should be responsible for funding a lawyer of his own choice. The individual facing allegations from FishRot made these statements during their brief appearance in court. They mentioned that they are...
The Legal Consultant of Abuja Markets Management Limited (AMML), Mr Kunle Kolawole, has called on President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly to intervene in the ongoing crisis rocking the company. Kolawole, who made the call on Friday at a news briefing in Abuja, said the management crisis had impacted negatively on the AMML, one...
Sisa Namandje, the legal counsel of Paragon Investment Group, has declared that the airport services company Menzies Aviation (Namibia) must vacate Hosea Kutako International Airport within a period of 30 days, to be specified by the Namibia Airports Company (NAC). He said this yesterday during a media briefing in Windhoek on Paragon’s readiness to take...
The lawyer representing Johan Maree who stands accused of molesting 15 teenage boys and supplying them with alcohol, has withdrawn from representing the accused, citing untenable instructions and not receiving the full docket from the State. Nampa reports that the trial was scheduled to commence in the High Court on Monday. Source link
Experienced lawyer Richard Metcalfe has compared anti-same sex marriages bills presently on their way to Namibia’s executive as the same as discriminatory laws passed under the apartheid system. Metcalfe has called for tolerance, saying that the bills against the recognition of same-sex marriage take Namibia back to pre-independence hatred, division and discrimination. The bills were...
One of the defence layers representing three people accused of killing a nine-year-old girl in Windhoek near the start of 2020 has announced his withdrawal from the three accused persons’ case, which is pending in the Windhoek High Court. Defence lawyer Jermaine Muchali has informed the court he is withdrawing from the matter because he...
Fugitive lawyer Marén de Klerk, who was granted bail in an amount of N$50 000 by a South African court on Friday, has been ordered to surrender his Namibian and South African passports to the South African police pending extradition proceedings awaiting him. De Klerk holds dual Namibian and South African citizenship.According to court documents...