Nored cuts electricity as Helmsman fails to cough up
Managing partner Chris Shivolo placed the blame firmly at Nored’s door, saying the company should have communicated with them before cutting the electricity to the pump station.
Kenya Kambowe
RUNDU
Helmsman Group, owned by Chinese-born businesswoman Stina Wu, failed to settle an N$8 000 invoice with Nored, which led to the disconnection of their pump station at Rainbow Village. This resulted in a house being flooded with sewage water.
This was confirmed by Helmsman Group local managing partner Chris Shivolo, who told Namibian Sun he doesn’t know why the Nored account wasn’t settled.
“I don’t know why the N$8 000 was not paid because we pay more than a million in accounts,” he said.
Shivolo, who said the settled the account yesterday, blamed Nored for not communicating with them prior to cutting the electricity to the pump station.
Attempts to get comment from Nored proved futile at the time of going to print.
This is just three weeks after urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni travelled to Rundu to deal with a sewage problem at the riverside town that caught his attention through the media.
Uutoni travelled to Rundu after he saw media reports about yards of houses in Rainbow Village flooded.
The housing project, comprising of 50 houses, was constructed by Helmsman Group.
Fix it!
Uutoni demanded that the issue be rectified permanently, however, at the time, Shivolo told the minister that the problem was addressed temporarily and would not reoccur for the next four months.
Meanwhile, Helmsman continues to defy an order by Uutoni to submit the drawings for Rainbow Village, which was completed in 2013.
Wu’s company has been withholding the plans for the past eight years.
Rundu council CEO Olavi Nathanael said they have still not received the drawings from Helmsman Group as ordered by the minister.
He said at one point he was informed by the company that the person who drew the plans was overseas and they could not trace him.
That was not what Shivolo told the minister at the time, though.
He told Uutoni that the drawings were at their headquarters in Windhoek.
The as-built drawings are crucial to the local authority as they show whether the contractor complied with the approved building plans.
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RUNDU
Helmsman Group, owned by Chinese-born businesswoman Stina Wu, failed to settle an N$8 000 invoice with Nored, which led to the disconnection of their pump station at Rainbow Village. This resulted in a house being flooded with sewage water.
This was confirmed by Helmsman Group local managing partner Chris Shivolo, who told Namibian Sun he doesn’t know why the Nored account wasn’t settled.
“I don’t know why the N$8 000 was not paid because we pay more than a million in accounts,” he said.
Shivolo, who said the settled the account yesterday, blamed Nored for not communicating with them prior to cutting the electricity to the pump station.
Attempts to get comment from Nored proved futile at the time of going to print.
This is just three weeks after urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni travelled to Rundu to deal with a sewage problem at the riverside town that caught his attention through the media.
Uutoni travelled to Rundu after he saw media reports about yards of houses in Rainbow Village flooded.
The housing project, comprising of 50 houses, was constructed by Helmsman Group.
Fix it!
Uutoni demanded that the issue be rectified permanently, however, at the time, Shivolo told the minister that the problem was addressed temporarily and would not reoccur for the next four months.
Meanwhile, Helmsman continues to defy an order by Uutoni to submit the drawings for Rainbow Village, which was completed in 2013.
Wu’s company has been withholding the plans for the past eight years.
Rundu council CEO Olavi Nathanael said they have still not received the drawings from Helmsman Group as ordered by the minister.
He said at one point he was informed by the company that the person who drew the plans was overseas and they could not trace him.
That was not what Shivolo told the minister at the time, though.
He told Uutoni that the drawings were at their headquarters in Windhoek.
The as-built drawings are crucial to the local authority as they show whether the contractor complied with the approved building plans.
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