Luxury SSC pen set creates more waves

THE former General Manager for Marketing and Customer Services at the Social Security Commission, Simon //Hoabeb, has said an article in the newspaper yesterday stating that he had no permission to buy a N$7 500 pen was inaccurate.

//Hoabeb was responding to an article in The Namibian that said that the presidential commission of inquiry had recommended that the writing set be disposed off. The former GM who is now working for Channel Life, one of the companies involved with the controversial SSC investment deals, said he had discussed the purchase of the pen set with former Chief Executive Officer Dessa Onesmus prior to him getting it in Johannesburg, South Africa.Onesmus last year described the N$7 500 price tag as “eina” and said she had censured //Hoabeb.She told the commission of inquiry during public hearings that she had warned //Hoabeb never to undertake shopping expeditions without prior approval.The former GM who is now working for Channel Life, one of the companies involved with the controversial SSC investment deals, said he had discussed the purchase of the pen set with former Chief Executive Officer Dessa Onesmus prior to him getting it in Johannesburg, South Africa.Onesmus last year described the N$7 500 price tag as “eina” and said she had censured //Hoabeb.She told the commission of inquiry during public hearings that she had warned //Hoabeb never to undertake shopping expeditions without prior approval.