By Sonja Smith | 20 January 2023

AGRO-MARKETING and Trade Agency (Amta) managing director Lucas Lungameni has been found guilty on eight counts of misconduct, including the disappearance of around N$6,2 million from the national agriculture company.


Lungameni was suspended last year for alleged irregularities at the entity that faced allegations of corruption over the past decade. He denied any wrongdoing and has vowed to defend his case.
The board appointed PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in June last year to conduct an investigation into the company.


The charges Lungameni faces include failing to protect the interests of the company, failing to act with due diligence, breach of trust and gross negligence.


Documents seen by The Namibian show that a disciplinary process led by lawyer Profysen Muluti, dated 14 November 2022, found Lungameni guilty of all eight counts of misconduct.


Muluti said Lungameni is found guilty of the disappearance of N$6,2 million, of which N$1,2 million was allegedly transferred from Amta’s levy account to the main cheque account, while N$5 million was transferred from the levy account to the salaries account.


He said none of these amounts could be “traced”.


“The revelations signify that the said funds are unaccounted for and were misappropriated, stolen or a subject of fraud,” Muluti said. The government formed Amta in 2015 as an agency responsible for the marketing and selling of agricultural products on behalf of the state.

IRREGULARITIES

The forensic investigation found that Lungameni ‘self-approved’ salary advances on four occasions.
The document shows that on 27 October 2019, Lungameni applied and obtained a salary advance of
N$16 200. In 2021, he got N$19 000 on 7 April, N$10 000 on 10 June and N$20 000 on 6 July. “You self-approved the request for 7 April 2021 and instructed your subordinates to approve your other salary advance requests, while you were fully aware that you have no authority to approve your own request and that your subordinates have no authority to approve your salary advance requests,” Muluti said.


He added: “You further allowed the patent of your salary advance for 6 July 2021 in the sum N$20 000 to be paid from the national strategic fund account instead of the salary account […]”. The Namibian reported four years ago that Lungameni was overpaid by N$3,1 million from 2014 to 2018. Five senior Amta officials were overpaid by N$1,5 million each since 2015.


However, Amta’s board chairperson Lorna Shikongo-Kuvare said the board does not want to publicly engage on the various allegations of misconduct against Lungameni.


“This process is still internal and we are duty bound to treat this process and the individuals involved with the utmost fairness and integrity,” she said.

OTHER CHARGES

One of the charges Lungameni faces is linked to the loss of Amta’s financial reports of the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 financial years.


This is after the company’s servers were allegedly attacked by a cyberattack on 15 June 2020.


Muluti says Lungameni failed to “implement systems and measures to protect the company’s electronic data from being vulnerable and exposed to third parties”. Lungameni is held liable for various cash withdrawals of around N$14,2 million by his ‘subordinates and third parties’ between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2021. The withdrawals were made from five Amta bank accounts. Lungameni was appointed as Amta boss in 2014.


Salomo Hei is acting while Lungameni is on suspension.


Wawyer Bernard Tjatjara will chair Lungameni’s disciplinary hearing.
Lungameni maintains that these are just allegations.


“Those are their allegations, but time will soon come for me to defend myself through my lawyers,” Lungameni told The Namibian on Wednesday.

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