An internal Namibia Football Association (NFA) report has raised questions over a N$12,000 repayment by national team player Godwin Eiseb, who says he transferred the money to a cellphone number belonging to a senior football official.
The payment was intended to recover part of the money mistakenly paid to national team players, but a report compiled by suspended NFA finance director Mino Gariseb says the association had not received the funds by 6 January 2026.
Eiseb, who plays for Botswana club Orapa United, confirmed to The Namibian that he had made the N$12,000 transfer to the number belonging to Tim Isaacs, the NFA’s director of competitions and registrations.
The case forms part of an investigation into an erroneous payment of N$148,000 to national team players last year, with the association seeking to recover the money.
According to the report, titled National Team Allowance Payments Report and dated January 2026, Eiseb was overpaid by N$36,000.
Players affected by the error were required to repay the money, including through deductions from allowances and bonuses for future matches.
“When asked, Godwin [who plays for Orapa United Football Club in Botswana] said the funds had been repaid to the NFA,” the report states.
However, Gariseb’s report says no deposit had reached the association. It also refers to a text message showing a N$12,000 pay-to-cell transfer from Eiseb to Isaacs’ number on 17 March 2025.
“Up to 6 January 2026 no repayment was made or arrangement was communicated,” Gariseb writes in the report.
It remains unclear why money owed to the NFA was transferred to an official’s personal cellphone number or what happened to the funds after the transaction.
Gariseb recommends that Isaacs be removed from responsibilities involving national teams, proposing instead that the technical department take over national team logistics.
“Cyril [Tim] Isaacs is not competent enough to handle national teams’ duties,” Gariseb states.
Isaacs, a long-serving football administrator, told The Namibian that he was not involved in processing the payments. He also said he could not verify whether the money had reached the association’s accounts.
“In respect to the alleged payment into the NFA account, the NFA acting general secretary would be best placed to confirm whether the funds were paid into the NFA account. I do not have access to the NFA’s accounts,” he said.
The report comes amid scrutiny of the NFA’s handling of the mistaken payments.
The Namibian had earlier reported that one reason for Gariseb’s suspension was the payment of double allowances to national team players without efforts being made to recover the money.
The association had required affected players to return the excess payments, with deductions from future match allowances and bonuses among the proposed recovery methods.
The circumstances surrounding Eiseb’s transfer raise questions about how repayments were handled and recorded.
While the player says he made the payment, the report states that the NFA had not received it by early January 2026.
The available information does not establish what happened to the money after it was transferred to Isaacs’ number, and it remains unclear why the repayment was not made directly into the association’s account.
