The Malaysian textile factory Ramatex came came under fire on Wednesday both in the National Assembly and at the monthly Windhoek city council meeting. DTA president Katuutire Kaura claimed that dangerous chemicals in the dye plant of Ramatex were leaking through the concrete floors and into the underground water resources of the city. This angered the minister of trade and industry, Jesaya Nyamu, who demanded that Kaura should be stopped from making further accusations against the one billion N$ investment. The Speaker however allowed Kaura to continue. Ramatex illegally built houses for their Chinese workers on the factory premises who in turn used the cheap water and electricity rates specially granted to Ramatex. Kaura further claimed the company failed to give a report to the Windhoek municipality about structural inadequacies of water retaining structures, the environmental assessment and lining of the fluid ponds. Ramatex received 43 ha of land at the rate of one Namibia dollar per month per hectare for 99 years, Kaura said. Minister Nyamu in his speech praised Ramatex, which together with two more factories would create 14 000 jobs. Foreign affairs minister Hidipo Hamutenya also defended Ramatex and claimed a small group of people, mainly engineers were against the investment. He promised a panel of independent engineers would be set up to investigate the claims of the DTA and those opposed to Ramatex.