NAMIBIA | Ombudsman presents Annual Report 2021/2022

Adv. Basilius Dyakugha, who was appointed as the 7^th Ombudsman of Namibia in October 2021, presented the office’s Annual Report for 2021/2022.

A total of 2,880 complaints were recorded for the reporting year. The office avails different platforms such as phone calls, emails, fax, Facebook, SMS line, letters and face to face consolation for the public to lodge their complaints. During this reporting year, as was the case last year, most of the complaints (1,175) were registered in person. The nature of complaints’ range from maladministration, especially against human resource  practitioners and local authority employees to human rights violation, such as access to healthcare and protracted court cases.

The report also informs about selected human rights cases and includes summaries of elected children’s rights cases and reports on residential child care facilities. Moreover, it gives account of the Ombudsman’s work in monitoring places of detention, the classic mandate of detecting cases of maladministration, as well as the Ombudsman’s environmental mandate, which allows the office to “investigate complaints concerning the over-utilization of living natural resources, the irrational exploration and destruction of the eco system and failure to protect the beauty and character of Namibia.”

You can find the Ombudsman’s Annual Report 2021/2022 in the download section below. For more information about the Office, please visit the website of the Ombudsman of Namibia.

Source: Office of the Ombudsman, Namibia