{"id":117638,"date":"2021-04-07T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117638"},"modified":"2021-04-07T13:14:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:14:56","slug":"namibian-defence-minister-resigns-after-corruption-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117638","title":{"rendered":"Namibian defence minister resigns after corruption allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zambiareports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/318CFD7B-84A2-4E8D-9856-8111804C86AA.jpeg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/zambiareports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/318CFD7B-84A2-4E8D-9856-8111804C86AA-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78284\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Namibia\u2019s Defence minister Peter Vilho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WINDHOEK, April 7 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Namibian Defence Minister Peter Vilho has resigned over allegations of taking kickbacks, Namibian officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his letter of resignation following a meeting with President Hage Geingob, Vilho said he was unable to continue with his duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vilho said that his &#8220;continued membership of the executive was untenable&#8221; and the &#8220;ongoing media blitz&#8221; focusing on him detracted attention from the &#8220;very important work of government, especially in the area of defence and security,&#8221; State House spokesperson Alfredo Hengari said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vilho met with Geingob on Tuesday to explain allegations of illicit proceeds in an undeclared foreign bank account in his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case involves foreign bank accounts that were investigated due to alleged kickbacks linked to a 1.8-billion-Namibian-dollar (124 million U.S. dollars) arms tender for the Namibian government around 13 years ago. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia\u2019s Defence minister Peter Vilho WINDHOEK, April 7 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Namibian Defence Minister Peter Vilho has resigned over allegations of taking kickbacks, Namibian officials said. In his letter of resignation following a meeting with President Hage Geingob, Vilho said he was unable to continue with his duties. Vilho said that his &#8220;continued membership of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}