{"id":174490,"date":"2024-06-14T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-sues-ex-deputy-minister-over-travel-allowance\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:51:27","slug":"namibia-govt-sues-ex-deputy-minister-over-travel-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-sues-ex-deputy-minister-over-travel-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Sues Ex-Deputy Minister Over Travel Allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8230; Nawatiseb says he is honest and clean<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><strong>The government is suing former deputy minister and Swapo member of parliament Engel Nawatiseb for close to N$110 000, claiming he has failed to honour an undertaking to pay an unused travel allowance and salary overpayment back to the state treasury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nawatiseb has given notice that he plans to oppose a claim for the payment of N$108 822,20 that the government filed against him in the Windhoek High Court in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He is not disputing that he received the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406140205.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Nawatiseb says he is honest and clean The government is suing former deputy minister and Swapo member of parliament Engel Nawatiseb for close to N$110 000, claiming he has failed to honour an undertaking to pay an unused travel allowance and salary overpayment back to the state treasury. Nawatiseb has given notice that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,13087,13744,4357,5941,4706,724,257,254,11600,5123],"class_list":["post-174490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allowance","tag-exdeputy","tag-govt","tag-minister","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sues","tag-travel"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}