Mouton digs into NRU

ISAK ‘Sackey’ Mouton, the suspended Namibia Rugby Union CEO, has accused his employers of ‘inappropriate conduct’ with regard to his disciplinary hearing.

Mouton, through his lawyers, Lorentz Angula Incorporated, claims that NRU president Buks Bock and other executive members of the union have been making ‘irresponsible and untruthful statements’ in the media. According to a statement from the law firm, the allegations ‘can only be interpreted as a malicious attempt to persecute and victimise’ its client before his case is heard. Mouton’s representatives further claim Bock and his deputy Sarel Losper are trying to ‘deflect the attention from their own questionable conduct’. Mouton accused the pair of favouritism and turning a blind eye to improper conduct by them and national rugby team coach Johan Diergaardt.Christo Alexander has since been temporarily roped in to fill Mouton’s position.’The NRU Executive Committee and certain members thereof are set to use our client in their personal ‘Vote of no confidence match’ involving certain members of the NRU,’ said part of the statement.Bock, who chose not to comment, had earlier claimed that Mouton, upon being served with his suspension letter on December 8, had ‘skipped town’, which derailed his hearing. However Mouton’s legal representatives said that their client had subsequently been available and had only received notice of the DC hearing in mid-January. The DC is now set to hear Mouton’s case tomorrow. ‘The truth is that for the first time on 12 January 2011, the NRU communicated a possible date for the disciplinary hearing of our client,’ reads the statement. Mouton’s lawyers further claim that despite their best efforts, the NRU failed to provide their client with sufficient details on the charges against him in time in order to prepare his defence.’On the day before the set commencement of the disciplinary hearing, the NRU’s representative contacted our offices, and informed us that he had just received instructions and that he was not ready for the hearing,’ the statement said further. ‘A subsequent date was set, but due to the failure by the NRU to provide due notice and details to the charges, the hearing could not proceed.’Mouton also claims that despite being suspended with full pay benefits, his employers have failed to pay about one third of his salary for the months of November and December. He has not received a salary for the month of January either.

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