Over 60 employees of the Roads Contractor Company (RCC) were on Thursday sent home after being denied access to their rented offices, which are owned by Namibia Post and Telecommunications Holdings (NPTH). RCC has been renting the building, which they previously owned, from NPTH for over a year after a Cabinet decision to have the building rescued from repossession by Bank Windhoek over debt. RCC acting chief executive officer (CEO), Seth Herunga, told NAMPA on Thursday they were denied access to the premises and were at the time waiting for NPTH’s lawyers to address them on the matter. He further alleged that security guards were acting on instructions of NPTH lawyers with no court order. “We are really locked out and it literally looks like we are getting an eviction letter. There is nothing much I can say and there is nothing we can do but the ideal thing to do now is to have the employees go home until we hear from the lawyers on the way forward,” he said. Late Thursday, Herunga informed NAMPA that they had still not met with the lawyers and the only solution was to send employees home until further notice. “The matter is now between the two lawyers,” Herunga said. Contacted for comment late on Thursday, NPTH CEO Kristofine Itembu confirmed that RCC owes NPTH N$6,1 million in rental arrears to date. She, however, stated that she cannot divulge further information on the matter as it is being handled by the NPTH legal team. -NAMPA