No upgrades on B1 road yet
The upgrading of B1 road between Windhoek and Okahandja into a dual carriageway has not yet started.
Work on the road was supposed to commence on January 13.
Manager for Corporate Communications at the Roads Authority (RA) Hileni Fillemon said last week that the delay was due to the late issuance of a performance guarantee from the contractor’s bank, as this is a requirement before civil work can commence on site.
“The contractor is busy mobilising his team, even though physical progress cannot be observed on site,” she said.
Fillemon noted that the contract for construction commenced on January 13, and the contractor is usually given 28 days to mobilise his team before he commences with the actual work on site.
“This implies that the physical work should have started by 14 February 2014, however, due to the reasons mentioned, a delay was experienced,” she said.
Murder suspect Eichhoff in court
A man accused of shooting and killing another man and his three dogs and burying them in an aardvark burrow at a farm in the Hochfeld area in October 2013, is expected to make another appearance in the Okahandja Magistrate's Court today.
Karl Eichhoff, 31, is still in police custody, after he was refused bail following his unsuccessful formal bail application that was heard on November 22 last year.
Magistrate Khae Primus Swartz, who presided over the bail application, refused to grant bail to the suspected killer after the prosecution team, led by Deputy Prosecutor-General Antonia Verhoef, presented evidence indicating that Eichhoff is a flight risk and could abscond from Namibia to other countries if released on bail.
Other grounds for the refusal of bail are that Eichhoff is facing serious charges of murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice, and that it would not be in the interest of the public to grant him bail at this stage.
Reports by Nampa