dent, the NIPDB or the National Planning Commission, for the 2021/22 The Paradise Papers, of the Offshore Leaks da- financial year, but the relevant quarterly report (October – December ta-base, indicate that Myerson and numerous of the 2021) for the presidency contains no such procurement item and the entities he is linked to operate out of notoriously se- NIPDB and NPC quarterly reports were not. [...] the Hyphen website states that it is tute certain definitions; to provide for The online company name-search “a strategic investor and project de- the appointment of the Chairperson interface of the Business and In- veloper in Europe and Africa primar- and the chief executive officer of the tellectual Property Authority (BIPA) ily through its subsidiary, Principle Central Procurement Board of Nami. [...] Unit in the Ministry of Finance, with assistance from local According to a document that recently came into and international partners – makes 19 recommendations the possession of Procurement Tracker Namibia, the across nine areas of concern, on how to improve the gov- long-standing poor management of the procurement ernance of procurement within the MHSS. [...] Towards the end of 2021 a report by the Auditor-General was tabled in the National Assembly that sheds some light on the governance of the Namibian government’s interven- tions in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. [...] “The MOHSS could not provide documentary evidence to prove that they proactively planned the procurement of key According to the audit, the OPM spent an amount of al- equipment such as ventilators prior to the COVID-19 out- most N$1,4 million on the non-compliant procurement of break to reduce the risk of higher prices.” services, while the MHSS spent nearly N$4,6 million in a Similarly, on the is.
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