Amutse denies illegality of sole fuel supply mandate given to international company
Staff Reporter THE Minister of Industries, Mines and Energy in Namibia, Modestus Amutse, has denied claims that Vitol Bahrain, a company which was given a mandate to be the sole supplier of fuel to Namibia for a period of three months, was illegally appointed. The minister made these remarks in response to leader of the ... The post Amutse denies illegality of sole fuel supply mandate given to international company appeared first on Informanté .
Staff Reporter THE Minister of Industries, Mines and Energy in Namibia, Modestus Amutse, has denied claims that Vitol Bahrain, a company which was given a mandate to be the sole supplier of fuel to Namibia for a period of three months, was illegally appointed. The minister made these remarks in response to leader of the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement, Job Amupanda, who claimed that the supply of fuel in Namibia is regulated by the Petroleum Products and Energy Act. He added that the trading of petroleum products is governed by regulations, adding that Regulation 14(1)(e) requires that a company have a wholesale licence before it can import fuel into Namibia.
“On 8 May you published the list of the licensed oil companies and traders. Everyone who has a petroleum licence in Namibia is known and published. On 21 May you wrote a letter to the Namibia Oil Industry Association that government has made an arrangement that Vitol will have the full mandate to cater for Namibia’s petroleum requirements.
On the list published of wholesale licences, Vitol does not have a licence in Namibia,” Amupanda said. He added that those who have licences are required to be Namibian or have their businesses registered in Namibia.
