COMMERCIAL farmers in the Hardap region stunned President Hifikepunye Pohamba with a retirement gift of 31 goats worth N$72 000.
The gift was handed over during a Swapo Party star rally held at MaltahÖhe on Saturday.
Hardap governor Katrina Hanse-Himarwa said: “For us (Hardap region) it (gift) is very small for what you did for the country, but we want to thank you in this fashion.”
Hanse-Himarwa reminded Pohamba that they have not given him the goats for consumption but to farm commercially.
The goats were donated by Hanse-Himarwa’s husband Ghenno Himarwa, Terrence Izaks, Dirk Coetzee, Johan Strauss, regional constituency councillor Jan Jarson, Basie Klazen, Hans Gertze, Billy Mensah and goat buyer Andre Rossouw. In terms of the President’s Pension and Other Benefits Act, 2004, Pohamba will be paid a monthly basic salary calculated on 80% of his current basic monthly remuneration and a gratuity equal to the annual salary payable during his office term.
The President is reported to earn about N$2,1 million a year – a salary set at 15% above the remuneration and benefits of the prime minister.
The President is also to receive a State-funded house which is expected to cost the tax payers N$35 million. Atlantic Pacific Fishing company, owned by Sunell Mouton, also donated N$150 000 to the Hardap Swapo Party for its presidential and national elections campaign.
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