{"id":235914,"date":"2026-06-10T17:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-grilled-over-n7-2bn-vitol-fuel-deal-bypassing-namcor\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:27:26","slug":"namibia-govt-grilled-over-n7-2bn-vitol-fuel-deal-bypassing-namcor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-grilled-over-n7-2bn-vitol-fuel-deal-bypassing-namcor\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Grilled Over N$7.2bn Vitol Fuel Deal, Bypassing Namcor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>The government yesterday faced intense criticism in the National Assembly for bypassing Namcor to award Vitol Bahrain a N$7.2-billion emergency fuel contract.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Vitol Bahrain EC is a subsidiary of the international energy trader Vitol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Popular Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani yesterday questioned prime minister Elijah Ngurare on the matter, citing concerns raised by former deputy finance minister and former acting Namcor managing director Maureen Hinda-Mbuende.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606100424.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>The government yesterday faced intense criticism in the National Assembly for bypassing Namcor to award Vitol Bahrain a N$7.2-billion emergency fuel contract. Vitol Bahrain EC is a subsidiary of the international energy trader Vitol. Popular Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani yesterday questioned prime minister Elijah Ngurare on the matter, citing concerns raised by former deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,53560,7012,7570,4357,20429,54589,9743,4706,724,257,254,19204],"class_list":["post-235914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bypassing","tag-deal","tag-fuel","tag-govt","tag-grilled","tag-n7-2bn","tag-namcor","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vitol"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/235914","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=235914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}