Namibia: Former NHE Boss Slams Mass Housing Planning

11 December 2014

A former National Housing Enterprise CEO and strategic expert says the countless problems plaguing the national mass housing programme is nothing but the results of inadequate planning and a lesson that political decisions should not be imposed on parastatals.

Mike Kavekotora, the man who was at the helm of the NHE from 2000 to 2005 before he was replaced by the NHE's incumbent CEO Vinson Hailulu, is worried that construction companies contracted to build the houses under the first phase are benefitting more than housing-starved Namibians by pocketing millions of dollars and advised government rather to rope in private consortiums of engineers and financiers to work together with construction companies on the project.

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