Cabinet has directed that investigations be extended to the source of dried sedimentation and that no further sales of the product should be made.

This follows the deaths of 16 people who died of suspected food poisoning at Kayova village in the Kavango East Region.

Expressing sympathy to the bereaved family during the 8th Cabinet resolution briefing, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology Emma Theofelus noted that the cabinet endorsed the intervention to provide burial assistance as well as food provision by the office of the Prime Minister.