Magreth Nunuhe
I KNOW this is the year of elections and everyone eligible has probably registered to vote in the upcoming presidential and National Assembly elections slated for November
I commend you for your efforts in keeping democracy alive particularly for those who live in informal settlements who have to somehow scrape around for something somewhere to show they have been living in one constituency for a year.
I have been to the bondoks and it’s no easy walk in the park. Apart from standing in long lines at a water point to collect water, you have to dodge electricity wires that miraculously spring out of the ground while bravely taking in the not-so-pleasant aroma coming from a grimy toilet nearby.
It’s good that some of us, who want to wurg municipal officials for shutting down our electricity and water services for a day in the more affluent neighbourhoods, are brought back to reality to understand what these brave souls have to undergo on a daily basis, 365 days a year.
But I don’t think anything beats the brevity of the roeka who decided to start a new political party after baring it for more than a decade in the tjoekie, then coming out and still maintaining that he was “innocent.”
Etoo … I don’t know whether it has become the lingua or song for inmates to say “I didn’t do it” even if they were caught red-handed in the act, but I am yet to meet a jailbird who can confess he was actually ‘guilty.’
I am not here to shoot down anyone’s presidential ambitions, but kako, the conviction of raping a seven-year old girl is too serious.
As a mother of two little girls, how can I stomach the possibility that someone like that could become the next President, vakuetu?
I really don’t want to start scratching my head and wondering how much that ticket to Australia is, but eish, when people start emulating things they have seen somewhere in lands not so far afield and you hear “let’s forgive and move on,” I get nervous.
Some country presidents may have been convicted in their youthful years for stealing bread, sweets or sugar, and still made it to the big office. Even though no crime is justifiable, one can still have a little sympathy for such, but entrusting someone who has broken the very moral fiber of society with the highest office in the land is just not ayoba.
Imagine the message we will be sending?
We are not saying that a president should be flawless but they must have high moral standing in society. Imagine if every Piet and Paul were to run for President? I wonder what you would think if the old skollie from next door, who you have been bravely greeting for years, but know that he killed his first victim at the age of 8, was running for the highest office too. Imagine a One-On-One interview with NBC’s Zemburuka: “But meneer, your past doesn’t look that good. Tell us…”
The Roeka: “Ja, I know and I am sorry. I killed a few people here and there in my younger days, but I was young and stupid, man. I am a better person now. I swear true God is living, I am a changed man.” It’s true that we should help integrate former prisoners back into society and I don’t think anyone would have a problem supporting the rehabilitated who want to make wrongs right, but please go start a business somewhere as long as it’s not a kindergarten.
Even a church would do to help those whose ways are still astray, but leave out the presidency bid. Sorry Ngo!
mnunuhe@newera.com.na