The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) has urged the Icelandic fishing company Samherji to issue an apology for its involvement in the Fishrot corruption scandal.
IPPR also urges Samherji to provide full compensation to the affected individuals and communities.
IPPR on Monday released its second human report titled ‘Right Now I Cannot Survive’, which highlights the continued struggles faced by former fishermen and their communities who are deeply affected by Namibia’s most high-profile corruption case.
IPPR research associate Frederico Links says most of the affected former fisheries workers are unskilled or low skilled migrant labourers from rural and mostly poor communities across the northern stretches of Namibia.
Most are now middle-aged men in their late 30s to late 40s.
“Most are now struggling to find work, whether in the fisheries sector or other sectors, with their low or unskilled profile contributing to their struggles to secure any sort of employment, whether at Walvis Bay or elsewhere,” Links says.
IPPR director Graham Hopwood says five years after the scandal was exposed, Namibians impacted by the Fishrot scandal are yet to receive adequate redress for the losses they have suffered.
“As a result, the IPPR calls for Samherji to make full redress to directly affected and impacted individuals and communities for the disruption and devastation inflicted on their lives as a result of Fishrot,” Hopwood says.
The first report was released in March this year.
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