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Namibia: Hifikepunye Pohamba blames contractor greed for failures in N$48-billion housing project – News

Namibia: Hifikepunye Pohamba blames contractor greed for failures in N-billion housing project – News

Africa Links 24 with Envaalde Matheus
Published on 2024-10-03 17:00:00

Former president Hifikepunye Pohamba says contractors’ greed hijacked his signature N$48-billion housing project through which 185 000 houses would be built by 2030.

“Unfortunately, defective implementation of the housing scheme castrated the project, because greed crept in and hijacked the good intentions of the housing scheme, which could have benefited many,” Pohamba says in his autobiography, ‘Footprints of Hifikepunye Pohamba – Onjila eyi Ayenda’.

In 2013, Pohamba…

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