Erkki Nghimtina (born 16 September 1947) is a Namibian politician and former military officer in the Namibia Defence Force (NDF).

From 1979–1982, he was the director of communications at Shilumbaba in Zambia while earning a diploma from the University of Rostock in the German Democratic Republic.

In an Amnesty International report, Nghimtina is quoted as acknowledging that security forces had "made some mistakes regarding human rights abuses"[3] in the handling of the situation.

In 2015, Nghimtina was appointed Namibia's Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation under president Hage Geingob.

[6] Nghimtina consistently opposed the Iraq War, slamming it both immediately prior to and a year into it as a move by powerful nations to impose their will on weaker ones.

At a press conference held by RDP following the events, Jesaya Nyamu, acting secretary of the party, called it an attempted murder.

However, following a meeting of high-level government and party officials including SWAPO secretary Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana, the minister was recalled to the State House and reprimanded, allowing him to retain his office.