Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) national general secretary Christine Aochamus disputes that the party owes N$3,2 million to a business suing the IPC in the Windhoek High Court.
In an affidavit filed at the court, Aochamus says Anga Enterprise CC, which supplied IPC-branded promotional material to the party, produced items which it delivered without first receiving supply orders.
According to Aochamus, this was after Anga Enterprise’s sole member, Gabriela Nietche-Kandolf, approached the IPC with a proposal to supply marketing and promotional material to the party.
“It was explicitly agreed that [the IPC] would only pay [Anga Enterprise] for the items delivered and subsequently sold by [the IPC]”, Aochamus says in her affidavit. “[The IPC] knew at the time that it does not have the financial capacity to pay upfront for such items.”
Aochamus made the affidavit in response to an application by Anga Enterprise for a summary judgement to be granted against the IPC by the High Court, after Nietche-Kandolf claimed the party has no defence to the claim that her close corporation filed against it in October last year.
Anga Enterprise is claiming it supplied IPC-branded promotional items, including shirts, caps, berets and badges, to the party from July to November 2020, and that the IPC owes the close corporation N$3,2 million for the items supplied to it.
However, according to Aochamus, the IPC’s agreement with Anga Enterprise was that items would be supplied and delivered to the party only after it has ordered the items, and that the IPC would pay for it after the items had been sold by the party.
Aochamus says in her affidavit that Anga Enterprise “started to produce items en masse without any supply order from [the IPC] and dumped these items at the premises of [the IPC] and created invoices without end.”
She adds that Anga Enterprise was informed that this procedure was not in the IPC’s interest and that it could not continue.
Aochamus also says the IPC has made a payment of N$890 385 for items by Anga Enterprise and subsequently sold by the party, but the close corporation does not mention this in the claim filed at the court.
“It is denied that [the IPC] is indebted to [Anga Enterprise] in the amount claimed or any other amount,” Aochamus states.
High Court judge Boas Usiku is scheduled to deliver a judgement on Anga Enterprise’s application for a summary judgement on 15 May.
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