Query: Windhoek Correctional Facility. Why do you continue giving inmates brown bread that is not fit for human consumption? There have been numerous complaints regarding this bread but you disregard them. The bread contains sand and stone, etc.
Response: Windhoek Correctional Facility bakery is supplied with bread flour produced at Divundu Correctional Facility. This is the same product supplied to Oluno Correctional Facility and Evaristus Shikongo Correctional Facility. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the bread flour. The processing of the flour at Divundu is procedural as the wheat grains are pre-cleaned before milling. No additional ingredients are added during this process.
The food prepared at the kitchen is tested daily by either the Officer in Charge or the medical staff. Moreover, whenever the facilities receive official visitors, they are invited to taste the food from the kitchen. Most recently the Minister of Safety and Security visited the facility, accompanied by a number of independent journalists and the Commissioner General of the Namibian Correctional Service and they were invited to taste the food and the bread. The entire delegation appreciated the freshly baked bread, ready for distribution to the offenders.
The only reason for complaint could be that the bread flour from Divundu is not fine as the products from Namib mill. As per information provided we could safely state that there is no sand in the bread baked at our bakery. Almost all offenders are eating the bread except some individuals. Our colleagues at the other three facilities can confirm these facts.
Eveline January, Namibia Correctional Service, Public and Media Relations Office, Email Address: eveline.january@gmail.com