Namibian court rejects RedForce’s urgent application
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Observer24
Namibia’s High Court rejected RedForce’s urgent application to prevent the implementation of Minister James Sankwasa’s directive concerning its debt-collection contract with Walvis Bay municipality. The judge found that urgency had not been established and ordered the company to pay legal costs, reports Observer24; the substantive dispute remains to be decided.
Namibia’s High Court dismissed RedForce Debt Management’s urgent application against a directive by Urban and Rural Development Minister James Sankwasa, ruling that the company had not established the urgency of its request. Acting Judge James Devittie delivered the ruling on 20 October.
RedForce had asked, among other things, for the directive to be declared unlawful insofar as it allegedly required the termination of its five-year debt-collection contract with Walvis Bay municipality. The judge found that the minister’s letter of 10 September asked the municipal council to follow the attorney general’s legal opinion before the end of the month, but did not expressly order the contract’s termination.
The attorney general’s opinion concluded that the agreement remained valid and binding, despite an irregularity in its signing: the chairperson of the management committee had not co-signed it, as required by section 31A of the Local Authorities Act. The judge also ordered RedForce to pay the minister’s legal costs.
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