NSFAF strikes back
The Namibian Students Financial Assistance Fund says the authors of a letter to the ACC clearly intended to drag the institution’s name through the mud and to tarnish the professional standings of its managers.
JEMIMA BEUKES
WINDHOEK
Namibian Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) management has dismissed allegations of corruption, wastage and victimisation made by a group of anonymous staff members as unwarranted.
Whistleblowers at NSFAF have written a damning letter to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), in which they also accuse higher education minister Itah Kandjii-Murangi of conniving with the current management of the fund.
NSFAF responded in a statement this week and said there was a clear intention by the authors to drag NSFAF’s name into disrepute and tarnish the professional standings of the management members implicated.
“NSFAF wishes to inform the public that the allegations contained in the anonymous letter are not only malicious and vindictive against anti-corruption figures in the institution, but also devoid of any truth. To this end, the public is hereby advised to dismiss the content of the said faceless letter with the contempt it deserves and to equally discontinue its circulation,” the statement read.
Damning allegations
In the letter, staff members accused NSFAF CEO Kennedy Kandume of spending more than N$5 million on consultants to investigate alleged corruption by the previous NSFAF management.
They also accused Kandume and his management team of instigating staff to testify against the previous executive led by former CEO Hiliya Nghiwete.
“Many of us awoke only when the previous CEO was gone and NSFAF is still embroiled in a crisis regarding the student records and their recovery. We realised that the problem is certain individuals at NSFAF who are paid a lot of money and do not want to do their jobs, and run to the ministry and the board to mislead people. And since they have access to these two key offices, the truth is never known,” the letter said.
The employees also accused some managers of instigating workers to fabricate evidence, by saying that an investment company was brought in based on its relationship with the former CEO.
Many staff members reportedly refused to testify against Nghiwete.
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WINDHOEK
Namibian Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) management has dismissed allegations of corruption, wastage and victimisation made by a group of anonymous staff members as unwarranted.
Whistleblowers at NSFAF have written a damning letter to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), in which they also accuse higher education minister Itah Kandjii-Murangi of conniving with the current management of the fund.
NSFAF responded in a statement this week and said there was a clear intention by the authors to drag NSFAF’s name into disrepute and tarnish the professional standings of the management members implicated.
“NSFAF wishes to inform the public that the allegations contained in the anonymous letter are not only malicious and vindictive against anti-corruption figures in the institution, but also devoid of any truth. To this end, the public is hereby advised to dismiss the content of the said faceless letter with the contempt it deserves and to equally discontinue its circulation,” the statement read.
Damning allegations
In the letter, staff members accused NSFAF CEO Kennedy Kandume of spending more than N$5 million on consultants to investigate alleged corruption by the previous NSFAF management.
They also accused Kandume and his management team of instigating staff to testify against the previous executive led by former CEO Hiliya Nghiwete.
“Many of us awoke only when the previous CEO was gone and NSFAF is still embroiled in a crisis regarding the student records and their recovery. We realised that the problem is certain individuals at NSFAF who are paid a lot of money and do not want to do their jobs, and run to the ministry and the board to mislead people. And since they have access to these two key offices, the truth is never known,” the letter said.
The employees also accused some managers of instigating workers to fabricate evidence, by saying that an investment company was brought in based on its relationship with the former CEO.
Many staff members reportedly refused to testify against Nghiwete.
[email protected]
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