After sustaining a spinal cord injury while on duty in 2019, 29-year-old wheelchair-bound Emmanuel Ndumba is still waiting for a wheelchair-friendly house and caretaker from the Omaruru Municipality.

He was previously employed by the municipality before he was injured on the job.

Wheelchair-bound for more than three years now, Ndumba narrates how an accident he was involved in on May 15, 2019, left him paralysed.
 
Upon his discharge from the hospital, his doctor wrote a letter to the municipality recommending that he be provided with a house and a caregiver since the accident took place while he was on duty.
 
Instead, the municipality flew him to Walvis Bay to stay with his aunt during his recuperation, he says.

Mbumba has since been given a one-bedroom house that is not wheelchair-friendly and without a caretaker, and he says he receives only N$5 000.00 per month from the municipality, which is hardly enough to cover his medication and needs.
 
The municipality has declined to comment.