But this in itself doesn't mean the fight is over.

In fact it has just begun, and a Commission of this sort without a crack team of investigators (with impeccable track records, I might add!) will not serve much purpose.

I'M not going to delve into the whys and wherefores of the structure agreed to, because there are concerns that need to be addressed.

But I will say that there's a need for clarity on several institutions already in place to deal with investigations of this and a similar nature.

The public should also be appropriately briefed on what complaints to take where, otherwise the Anti-Corruption Commission risks spending time on matters irrelevant to its very specific mandate.

Past years, and annual reports, have shown us that the Office of the Ombudsman, for example, which has been in existence for some time now, has spent the bulk of its time on labour-related issues, unfair dismissals and the like.

That's not to say they haven't done the occasional probe into human rights issues or corruption for that matter, but these have been few and far between and that's an unfortunate fact.

We have a lot of very positive mechanisms in place to deal with, among others, labour code violations, constitutional issues and the like, but we need to ensure that they perform the functions they've been set up to deal with.

There is, for example, a Labour Commissioner who deals with precisely this type of issue, so there would seem to be no good reason why members of the public would take their complaints on these and related issues to the Office of the Ombudsman.

The Ombudsman is primarily there to enforce the Bill of Rights.

This is an important mandate which should not be trivialised with matters that can be dealt with by another institution.

Perhaps though, people have largely lost faith in some of these mechanisms.

Perhaps because they don't report regularly enough to the public, or are not visibly acting on complaints.

Whatever the reason, it is not the fault of the media that many of these issues are brought to our attention.

Minister John Pandeni recently took issue with various Government departments over precisely this point.

He maintained that complaints about corruption and nepotism, and various other negatives in public service, should be dealt with internally and not 'aired through the media'.

But the media, or some of them at any rate, are at least taking complaints seriously and investigating and reporting on issues involving abuse of the taxpayers' money that would have been buried in a pile of papers in some Government office and forgotten about, had the 'correct channels', in Pandeni's parlance, been followed.

And what if the media do take up these issues? Surely they should be commended for an investigative job well done.

We should all join hands in the fight against corruption, according to our new President, and we're doing just that and won't turn people away who want us to look into legitimate grievances and issues of bad governance.

In most cases we are the last resort for people who've been sent from pillar to post in trying to expose corrupt practices.

But to get back to the new Commission: it is going to be a costly exercise, as it will certainly need a good and efficient team to look into complaints it receives.

It also cannot work in isolation from the rest of society, and it is important that it doesn't cloak its work in secrecy, because that would defeat the aims and objectives of what could be a commendable public institution, from the outset.

The Director and Deputy Director of the said institution aren't as important, at the end of the day, as those they employ to do the 'dirty work'.

But of course it would need to be spearheaded by a fearless team of people absolutely committed to a corruption-free Namibia.

If they are perceived to be the products of political patronage, then the whole exercise simply won't work.

So let's hope Prime Minister Nahas Angula gets things going as soon as he's promised and that it meets the high expectations people have the right to expect of it.

But it must have the resources to do the job, and that's possibly going to be the hardest task of all - to find those with a clean set of hands who are up to the challenge.

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