RCC pays idle workers

About 30% of the Roads Contractor Company workers have been receiving pay while sitting at home for the past 18 months.

The RCC's acting chief executive officer Tino !Hanabeb said this to The Namibian yesterday following a nationwide demonstration by some workers who complained about late and unpaid salaries.

On the allegations of late salaries, he said the payments were only late for five days in July and November this year. He added that this was due to the competition the parastatal faced from private construction companies.

One of the workers, Heinrich Cokes Hindju, handed their petition to deputy minister of works Sankwasa James Sankwasa, and also formulated an ultimatum for the ministry's intervention