Minister of Information and Broadcasting Nangolo Mbumba told the media yesterday that Cabinet had accepted the findings and adopted the recommendations of the report at its opening session last week.

The report laid before Cabinet by President Sam Nujoma confirms shortcomings and malpractices in the activities, management and operations of both companies.

When Nujoma appointed the Commission chaired by Petrus Unengu in June, he announced that the findings would be made public - the first time this will be done in the case of a presidential commission in independent Namibia.

Mbumba said it was hoped that in the next week or so, the Prime Minister's office would convene a meeting of representatives from that office, the Office of the President, the Office of the Attorney General and the Ministries of Finance and Trade and Industry to determine how the report would be submitted to Parliament and disseminated to the public.

Mbumba said it would be preferable that the current Parliament discussed the report before it was dissolved in a month's time.

Cabinet has discussed both the Social Security Commission report and that on the Roads Authority and Roads Fund Administration, but their findings and recommendations were never passed on to parliament or publicised.

The Police recently began investigating whether criminal charges would be brought against those implicated in wrong-doing.

The move by the President to publicise the findings and recommendations of the DBC-Amcom report, the first time such a report will be made public, has been met with scepticism in some quarters.

It is viewed as part of a witch-hunt against former Foreign Affairs Minister Hidipo Hamutenya.

Both organisations fell under Hamutenya while he was the Minister of Trade and Industry.

Hamutenya fell out of favour with the President when he joined the race to be the ruling party's presidential candidate.

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