Former NamPower MD says Kudu too expensive

Former NamPower managing director Leake Hangala has said that plans to develop the Kudu gas-to-power project are a waste of time and money and Namibian officials leading the project are deceiving the government about its financial viability.Hangala’s remarks, made in the presence of mines and energy minister Isak Katali and trade and industry minister Calle Schlettwein at the Namibia Energy Policy Forum in Windhoek on 14 November, follow the decision by Tullow Oil and Itochu Corporation to hand back to the government control of the project, previously seen as the centrepiece of Namibia’s plans to address a looming power shortage.