WINDHOEK FRED GOEIEMAN
The Regional Court in Katutura, hearing the alleged fraudulent registration of a voter during the Omuthiya local authority election, will today decide whether a copy of a registration form can be handed in as an exhibit.
The defence has argued that it should not be allowed as an exhibit. State attorney Ed Marondedze alleged the signature on the registration form with which Magnus Nangombe, one of the accused in the matter, was registered as a voter, was forged.
The original registration form, which was in the possession of the prosecution, has gone missing. They now want to hand in a copy of the registration form.
Nangombe, together with former ECN director Philemon Kanime and Nico Mingelius, systems administrator of the ECN, are charged with fraud. It is alleged that they fraudulently registered Nangombe as a voter in the Omuthiya local authority election in February 2008 while he was not entitled to be registered. Nangombe was an RDP candidate in that election before his name was removed from the voters' roll.
The case continues in the Regional Court in Katutura before Magistrate Sarel Jacobs. Hennie Barnard and Albert Strydom are appearing on behalf of the accused persons.
