Redforce back in business

Kenya Kambowe



RUNDU

Redforce Debt Management and the Rundu town council have reached a settlement agreement which will allow the debt collector to resume its mission to recover over N$450 million owed to the local authority.

On 5 November, Redforce turned to the High Court in an urgent application after the urban and rural development ministry, through its representative on the Rundu town council Sebastian Kantema, ordered that its contract be terminated indefinitely.

Redforce had commenced with work in October and within a week, it had recovered over N$3 million; however, it had to stop operations after minister Erastus Uutoni made the call.

The council, Uutoni, Rundu acting CEO Sam Nekaro and Kantema were the respondents in the matter in which Redforce asked the court to set aside the ministry’s decision.

Null and void

However, prior to Justice Esi Schimming-Chase’s ruling, which was to be made on 20 November, the council and Redforce agreed to and crafted a settlement agreement.

The agreement entails that the decisions by Uutoni be set aside and declared null and void, and that Redforce will resume with its operations on 1 January 2021.

The council will also place an advertisement in a daily newspaper before or on 30 November to inform the Rundu residents about the resumption of operations.

Meanwhile, the respondents were instructed to pay Redforce’s legal costs.

On Friday, Schimming-Chase ordered that the agreement be made an order of the court and that the matter be removed from the roll.

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