THE Rehoboth Town Council two weeks ago dismissed a clerk, Eben Uirab, for allegedly forging his Grade 12 qualification.
Uirab allegedly used his brother’s academic qualifications to get a job as an enquiry clerk at the council. Uirab was fined N$8 000 or four years imprisonment in February after the Anti-Corruption Commission had opened a criminal case against him. The council’s chief executive officer, Theo Jankowski, confirmed the dismissal. Asked why it had taken the council so long to dismiss Uirab after he was convicted, Jankowski said: ‘The postponement of disciplinary hearings had delayed the dismissal, therefore the council’s management committee only decided to sack Uirab two weeks ago after the disciplinary records were presented to it’.
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