Who is fooling who?
I need to register my views on the newly formed political party, Rally for Democracy and Progress. Much has been said by various interested Namibians expressing their respected views on the above. Mr Hidipo Hamutenya’s curriculum vitae is known to us all and this I thought cannot go unchallenged.
Firstly, we learnt from your CV that you were in the ranks of the mighty SWAPO for almost 46 years. You gained a lot of experience from our leaders that are referred to you and your allies as having failed to produce for the Namibian people 17 years down the line.
From 1990 up to 2004, when your underground actions were revealed to the nation, you served as a minister in different portfolios. Given a breath, you were called in back to serve as a parliamentarian till two weeks ago when you voluntarily called it a day.
If I may refresh your mind, in 2004 after you were relieved from your official duties as Cabinet minister you attracted the media’s attention that asked you on the possibility of you joining a new party which I will presume is what has produced the RDP.
Your response to this was a big NO, and you further went on saying you will never join a party of imperialist and stupid people. Have you become an imperialist today?
Two weeks ago, you resigned from the mighty SWAPO and deviated the questions from the media as to whether you will be part of RDP.
Last week, we were not surprised to learn from you as being the interim party president. In reality this is self-defeat coupled with cowardice.
Given this picture, do you still dispute that the father of this nation Dr Sam Nujoma had a just cause to relieve you from your ministerial duties?
Your reasons for forming and joining RDP must simply be that it is your constitutional and democratic right as enshrined in this land’s supreme law which is the Constitution if you were man enough.
But painting a red and sour picture of our respectful trusted leaders is viewed as a serious insult to them and to those fallen heroes and heroines.
Shame on you, you 100% contributed to the alleged failure and remained mute and mum.
You were one of the legislators that drafted the Namibian Constitution whereby your fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression were highlighted and respected, but today you want to fool us around by serving your own interests.
You have served in the following key strategic ministries: Information and Broadcasting, Trade and Industry and lastly Foreign affairs.
My conviction tells me you are the one to be held accountable for the alleged government failures. In my own view both Mr Hamutenya and Mr Nyamu equally owe this nation a big price regarding the collapse and failures of Amcom, Namibia Development Corporation (NDC), Pidico in the Caprivi and lastly Ramatex.
Now tell the nation which of the said projects would not be your babies, hence you all share the same blemished state of mind.
Please stop buying political votes by criticizing the Government unnecessarily. Use the experience you have learnt at the helm of the mighty SWAPO mentors in exile and in the Government.
To call a spade a spade, your actions and that of your allies are as a result of a power struggle backed up by greed (which I would term Mafunjo ni mucho mubi in my vernacular language).
You and your allies are failures who do not want to accept your actions. I strongly support what some other concerned Namibian has said about you regarding your failures to produce for this nation.
When you were sworn in as Cabinet minister in 1990, you took an oath to serve this nation and now you have breached that oath by opting to divide and confuse this nation.
You all know as we all know, Namibian people were for too long a time oppressed and SWAPO liberated them. I would need to refresh your brains by displaying the following classic examples.
The DTA under Mishake Muyongo, Katuutire Kaura, Kuaima Riruako, Dirk Mudge and company has tried this and the outcomes were the painful results, where are they today?
Muyongo is in Denmark; Riruako revived Nudo; Mudge’s son formed RP; Kaura has lost political vision and is dreaming of becoming the next state president come 2009 elections, shame on him too.
Ben Ulenga went on the rampage by giving birth to the CoD whereas Shixwameni, Tsudao Gurirab, and company followed but today they are in a court of law due to power struggles and greediness.
News from the media is that Shixwameni wants to form his own party too called NPP. This is not a discouragement, dear Namibians, but the only truth at all. This in fact is from hero to zero.
Jesaya Nyamu publicly announced this when notes that gave birth to RDP were found in his office while still a minister and you were quiet and even totally denied this.
Today you are the interim president; do you think Jesaya Nyamu would allow you to be his boss? I doubt very much sir.
Maybe I am wrong but I personally foresee a possibility of another breakaway and split from you people, presumably a formation of another political party in the name of NAPO.
My personal perception is based on your curriculum vitae, of which I am quite convinced that you are all power hungry and do not really mean business when we come to political leadership and leading this peaceful nation.
You all are former ministers, law makers, CEOs, town clerks, political coordinators and organizers, etc, that have failed beyond reasonable doubt to produce for this nation and do you think you will convince 1,8 million people to join your party when your curricula vitae are in their hands?
Unfortunately not, due to the well deserved price that the SWAPO party has paid to its people by liberating this motherland and bringing the peace we all enjoy today and forever.
There is a saying “Rome was not built in a day”, so equally was Namibia’s liberation struggle.
Given this scenario you cannot expect the SWAPO-led Government to meet the entire strategic plan as per its manifesto, NDP2 and vision 2030 seventeen years down the line.
You were party to all this but today a bended finger is pointed at Dr Nujoma and the SWAPO-led Government. Where were you when the education system was declining? Where were you when the health facilities were draining? Were you not parliamentarians when the crime rate was escalating?
I would suggest the Anti-Corruption Commission and the Namibia State Security launch an extensive investigation and possibly formulate charges against you for taking Government time and money by falsely concentrating on private business and overseas trips instead of doing the job you were elected and paid for, as I suspect you were concentrating on the formation of RDP from 1990.
In fact all the blame must be shared by you people and nobody else or else you are fooling us.
To those of you who are criticizing the SWAPO-led Government and its leadership, may I request you to abstain from this as the organization is on the right track in its dealings.
To Mr Hamutenya, Jesaya Nyamu and company, please you may cheat an ordinary layman in the street but not our people that believe and know what SWAPO and its Government have done for them. SWAPO is here to rule us forever, believe me or not.
Mr Hamutenya, at the age of 68, I believe you are daydreaming when you talk about becoming president of this peaceful republic come 2009.
ZANU-PF is there in Zimbabwe for 28 years, MPLA in Angola for 30 years and FRELIMO in Mozambique – the list is endless, and who are you to take over from SWAPO in 2009?
These were the DTA’s dreams. Tell me how many seats do they have today in Parliament?
Swapo United, Swapo Victorious, Now Hard Work.
George Matali
Karas Region