The High Court in Windhoek on Friday ordered the Grootfontein municipality to reinstate its suspended chief executive officer, Kisco Sinvula.
Sinvula was suspended in March last year on allegations of misconduct.
In an order issued in Friday, the court reviewed and set aside the Grootfontein municipality’s decision to suspend Sinvula from his position.
The court also ordered the municipality to pay Sinvula’s legal costs in the legal action he took following the decision to suspend him.
On Friday, Grootfontein mayor Talitha Garises issued a notice that a special town council meeting is to be held at 08h30 today.
At the meeting the town council is due to discuss the outcome of the court case and possibly a renewed attempt to suspend Sinvula.
Sinvula was not available for comment when contacted by The Namibian on Sunday. Two text messages sent to his cellphone were also not responded to.
Sinvula has been accused of signing the appointment letters of four municipal employees before they completed a six-month period of probation.
This prompted some residents of the town calling themselves the Grootfontein Concerned Group to write a letter to president Hage Geingob in which they accused the minister of urban and rural development, Erastus Uutoni, of failing to address the matter.
Garises refused to comment on the matter when she was contacted on Friday.
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