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Alleged Bribes in Namibian 5G Deal
Following the release of the investigation, the City of Windhoek suspended its head of information technology and a police investigation is underway.
A row broke out at the city council meeting on the morning the investigation was released.
It led to @AJIUnit trending at no 1 in Namibia with what became known as the COWROT investigation – C-O-W is the acronym for the City of Windhoek, while ROT stood for rotten.
Our findings became the front-page headline in The Namibian newspaper, while developments in another I-Unit investigation, Anatomy of a Bribe, became the front-page headline in The Windhoek Observer on the same day.
A popular meme circulated depicting a bully with the caption ‘I fear no man. But that thing – Al Jazeera – it scares me.’
#cowrot #AlJazeera #namibia #fishrot pic.twitter.com/c2eB0Dqo9f
— Ben van der Walt (@bennavanderwalt) July 16, 2020
Somewhere in Namibia, there is a corrupt official signing off corrupt deals.#COWRot #Fishrot #Namibia #AJI pic.twitter.com/hqiBmbCCai
— ok 𓅓 (@iam_outiss) July 16, 2020
