Nguvauva paid during his absence

FORMER DEPUTY MINISTER OF WORK Kilus Nguvauva confirmed that he was on the state payroll for four months after leaving the government in 2015.

Nguvauva said that the Namibian in an interview last week that he received a salary from the ministry of works from November 2015 to April 2016 after the end of his tenure in 2015.

Nico Smit, popular democratic parliamentarian, has raised the issue of Nguvauva's salary, although he is out of his duties.

Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila in the National Assembly last week to explain why the former deputy minister was still on the state payroll.

The parliamentarian claimed that Nguvauva was paid about N $ 4 million between 2016 and 2018 However, Nguvauva refuted Smit's claim, saying that he had only received N $ 116,000 in for one-time payment of the department instead of "the money they had wrongly deducted from my retirement package". After I left my post. "

" It is not correct that I received a monthly payment from the department. I have never received any salary, apart from this one-time payment that was made in May 2017. What I am currently receiving per month is my pension from the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF). ) ", he said. he, the payment for four months arrived in 2015 when he lost the Swapo primary elections and failed to do so on the parliamentary party list. He claimed that in September of the same year he had written to the President, "who is the appointing authority, to tell him what had happened so that we could find a solution" .

"Unfortunately, no answer was given to the president's office, but at the same time I went to GIPF to tell them that I was no longer deputy minister to prepare my case. I have signed the papers on November 8, 2015. "

The same papers, Nguvauva asserted, were supposed to be signed by the Department of Human Resources of the Ministry of Public Works, but" they have refused to do so unless they receive something from the nominating authority stating that I was no longer a deputy minister ". I could not just leave the office since the president appointed me, so I stayed in power, "he said. Nguvauva added that the ministry's human resources department only signed his papers in March 2016 after receiving a letter from the then presidential affairs minister, Frans Kapofi, who stated that "I I was not supposed to be in power because I had lost

The former deputy minister also claimed that after signing his papers, an amount of 107,000 Namibian dollars was deducted from his benefits because "they said that I had been paid too much since I was not supposed to be in post for this"

"I was paid for November, December, January and February But I was not happy because it was not my fault because I could not leave the office without the directive of the appointing authority, "he explained.

He claimed that the money would be returned to his account in May 2017 after filing a complaint with the labor commissioner and a complaint to the Prime Minister's Office.