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Omaruru plans open meeting on deals

Omaruru plans open meeting on deals

THE Omaruru Town Council this week agreed to respond to questions from the community about questionable decisions taken in the past few years.

Mayor Michael Tjirare said yesterday that the council held an extraordinary meeting on Monday at which a decision was taken to report back to the community following meetings held at the town hall in July. The council has yet to respond to questions sent by The Namibian at the end of July about land given away by the previous council in a web of deals involving one of the councillors, Gruzi Goseb, and the town’s chief executive officer, Johannes Xoagub.The deals include the sale of an 800 hectare community game park for N$48 000 with its wild animals, and a prime plot in the central business district of Omaruru for N$2 800.The land was sold to businessman Michael Goagoseb, in a supposed black economic empowerment deal, but he resold the game park to a German entrepreneur Herbert Ludwig Kempkes for about 10 times the price he paid to the town.Goseb and Xoagub have raised the race card against people questioning the dubious transactions, claiming a Concerned Group of Omaruru residents were being manipulated by white residents of the town.They have not denied their involvement in the deals.The council has yet to respond to questions sent by The Namibian at the end of July about land given away by the previous council in a web of deals involving one of the councillors, Gruzi Goseb, and the town’s chief executive officer, Johannes Xoagub.The deals include the sale of an 800 hectare community game park for N$48 000 with its wild animals, and a prime plot in the central business district of Omaruru for N$2 800.The land was sold to businessman Michael Goagoseb, in a supposed black economic empowerment deal, but he resold the game park to a German entrepreneur Herbert Ludwig Kempkes for about 10 times the price he paid to the town.Goseb and Xoagub have raised the race card against people questioning the dubious transactions, claiming a Concerned Group of Omaruru residents were being manipulated by white residents of the town.They have not denied their involvement in the deals.

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