EENHANA – Prime Minister Dr Hage Geingob says Swapo has delivered and that the party will not indulge in merely promising what it is going to do should the party win the presidential election scheduled for November 28.
“We are saying that we delivered a long time ago and there is freedom – freedom of speech, press, expression. We promised to be our own liberators after independence and we have achieved that,” said Geingob at a rally in Eenhana over the weekend.
Geingob, addressing hundreds of Swapo supporters, said those who do not recognize the efforts made by the party are liars and dishonest.
“We cannot deny that there are no problems, the problems are there,” said Geingob, adding they would be fixed as part of the national development programme.
Geingob said Swapo would declare a war against the still ongoing problems of poverty and homelessness during the phase of economic emancipation.
“Those who do not have a house, children taught under trees, people sleeping with hunger, that is the war we declare in the second phase,” said Geingob.
He said Swapo would continue to empower business personalities by providing a conducive environment to enable those who have the ability to work and feed themselves to help themselves and assist in the fight for economic emancipation and developing the country.
“We use your tax money to build schools, clinics and for infrastructural development,” said Geingob.
He condemned tribalism and was content with the number of people who had come to the rally saying: “You didn’t say the guy is Damara, you came out in numbers.”
Geingob also invited those who had left the party or were “misled”, to rejoin the party, adding that they will be welcomed back.
The Chairperson of National Leaders assigned to Ohangwena Region and the Minister of Works and Transport Erkki Nghimtina assured Geingob that Ohangwena is a Swapo stronghold. According to Nghimtina, who reflected on the past elections in Ohangwena, 90 percent of the population are Swapo supporters.