Neumbo re-elected Otjozondjupa Region Council chairperson

OTJIWARONGO, 22 JUN  – Chairperson of the Otjozondjupa Regional Council, Julius Neumbo was on Friday re-elected in the same position during the council’s mid-term internal elections for political office bearers.
He was also re-elected as chairperson of the management committee, which deals with the planning and budgeting of development activities of the region.
Regional councillors across the country are required by law to hold internal mid-term elections among themselves, where political office bearers are elected into positions such as the chairpersons of the regional council and management committee and members of the National Council.
The region is composed of seven constituencies and the councillors are Neumbo (Otjiwarongo), Laina Nekundi (Otavi), Vetaruhe Kandorozu (Okakarara), Steve Biko Booys (Okahandja), Nelago Amagulu (Grootfontein), Francina Hishekwa-Ghauz (Tsumkwe) and Israel Hukura (Omatako).
The management committee also includes Kandorozu and Amagulu as members.
Neumbo, Amagulu, Hishekwa-Ghauz, Nekundi and Booys represent the Swapo Party at the regional council, while Kandorozu and Hukura are on the ticket of the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo).
Booys, Nekundi and Hishekwa-Ghauz were also re-elected and unanimously endorsed to represent the region in the National Council in Windhoek.
Hukura is the only ordinary council member at the regional council.
Otjiwarongo Magistrate, Eduard Kesslau swore them into their positions in which they will serve for the remaining two and half years before another election takes place in 2020.
The seven constituency councillors assumed the positions in December 2015.
(NAMPA)