NHE staff demand resignations
National Housing Enterprise employees say there has been no progress at the parastatal in the last five years.
OGONE TLHAGE
WINHDOEK
Employees of the National Housing Enterprise are up in arms at the fact that company CEO Gisbertus Mukulu’s contract has been renewed.
The employees have also requested newly appointed Namibia Revenue Agency chief Sam Shivute to step down from his position as board chair, saying that it has not been steered to success in the last five years.
NHE staff members had last week written several petitions speaking out against Mukulu’s continued stay at the enterprise and his performance since his appointment as CEO.
Company secretary Ntalemo Ntalemo said the concerns over Mukulu’s had been brought to the attention of Shivute.
“We requested that the current board of directors resign and leave the board of the NHE. We stated that the position of the CEO must be advertised and filled, in the interim we could appoint a CEO,” said Ntalemo.
According to him, NHE management wanted to present their grievances to urban and rural development minister Erastus Utoni.
“We required from the board a meeting, management and the board to sit together and hear the board’s position. We addressed these issues, then the board through the chairperson alone, he said look, you have no powers to fire the board, you should take it with the line minister and the president,” Ntalemo said.
Finance manager
The board also requested the resignation of FNB finance manager Oscar Capelao.
“On the issue of the CEO’s renewal, the chairperson did not express himself and simply glossed over the issue of conflict of interest because we required him to step down now that he vacate the board and also Mr [Oscar] Capelao because he works at FNB [commercial bank] and they do in some cases on housing finances compete with NHE,” Ntalemo said.
“On those issues Sam still refused and advised there is no conflict in terms of him serving on the board. The board announced the reappointment or the renewal of the CEO and that shocked us quite a lot because we were going to put out evidence in terms of how NHE has performed over the period of five years so that we demonstrate to them the direction that NHE is taking because in our view, NHE is not doing well,” Ntalemo said.
WINHDOEK
Employees of the National Housing Enterprise are up in arms at the fact that company CEO Gisbertus Mukulu’s contract has been renewed.
The employees have also requested newly appointed Namibia Revenue Agency chief Sam Shivute to step down from his position as board chair, saying that it has not been steered to success in the last five years.
NHE staff members had last week written several petitions speaking out against Mukulu’s continued stay at the enterprise and his performance since his appointment as CEO.
Company secretary Ntalemo Ntalemo said the concerns over Mukulu’s had been brought to the attention of Shivute.
“We requested that the current board of directors resign and leave the board of the NHE. We stated that the position of the CEO must be advertised and filled, in the interim we could appoint a CEO,” said Ntalemo.
According to him, NHE management wanted to present their grievances to urban and rural development minister Erastus Utoni.
“We required from the board a meeting, management and the board to sit together and hear the board’s position. We addressed these issues, then the board through the chairperson alone, he said look, you have no powers to fire the board, you should take it with the line minister and the president,” Ntalemo said.
Finance manager
The board also requested the resignation of FNB finance manager Oscar Capelao.
“On the issue of the CEO’s renewal, the chairperson did not express himself and simply glossed over the issue of conflict of interest because we required him to step down now that he vacate the board and also Mr [Oscar] Capelao because he works at FNB [commercial bank] and they do in some cases on housing finances compete with NHE,” Ntalemo said.
“On those issues Sam still refused and advised there is no conflict in terms of him serving on the board. The board announced the reappointment or the renewal of the CEO and that shocked us quite a lot because we were going to put out evidence in terms of how NHE has performed over the period of five years so that we demonstrate to them the direction that NHE is taking because in our view, NHE is not doing well,” Ntalemo said.
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