Addressing an election rally at Eenhana in the Ohangwena Region on Friday, Geingob said some reporters were writing things that are not true, "because they want to be arrested and then to talk too much".

"We in Swapo believe in freedom of the press, but you have to report the truth.

I can tell you that the day there will be friendship between the press and the Government I will be worried, because we want the press to be free, but then it must report the truth.

The press is there to report positively on events and not to tell lies," Geingob said.

"I am telling [Windhoek Observer editor Hannes] Smith and others, you have written and written too much all this nonsense against the Government and the truth, but the Government has stood firm about you, not arresting or touching you.

"Despite that some reporters have written many things against the Government, has put them in opposition with the Government, no single one of those Namibian journalists have been arrested or prevented to write," Geingob said.

He claimed that some media had reported lies about Swapo rallies at Walvis Bay and Omuthiya, especially when it came to the number of people who attended those rallies.

"If you are not telling the truth, we will take upon you," he said.

Geingob said the press could write about any Namibians, whether it be the President, a Cabinet Minister or a member of the judiciary, as long as they wrote the truth.

If not, Government will from now on take them to task, he warned.

"We do not want what we have realised as a Swapo Party Government to be disrupted.

People must tell the truth about what we have realised so far and will bring about," said Geingob.

He said investors are coming to Namibia because the Swapo Government has created a conducive atmosphere for them and for all Namibians.

"Swapo has united all Namibians from all ethnic groups and made them one nation of one Namibia.

We are not like those parties who are promoting tribalism.

Tribalism will not bring Namibians together, in harmony, instead it will create chaos, violence as you see it in other countries in Africa and elsewhere in the world.

Let us unite in Swapo to have a prosperous Namibia," Geingob said He said Swapo had developed Namibia in many aspects and was keeping its economy stable.

According to Geingob, before Independence Namibia's Gross Domestic Product growth was between 1,5 and two per cent, but now it stood between three and five per cent, and Namibia had no debts with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Geingob said Swapo had reformed education and today about 98 per cent of Namibian children were getting an education.

He said some people were now saying that Bantu education was better.

"So, it looks like we have now house niggers and field niggers in Namibia.

Some are saying our good Bantu Education has been taken away, others are complaining about money being wasted by building Heroes' Acre, State House, what a shame," he said.

He called on the Minister of Education to continue doing his work calmly and properly, and not to listen to those who are just making noise.

Geingob also called upon human rights activists to see the realities and also to talk about realities.

Geingob denied allegations that Namibia was a corrupt country, saying that Namibia was ranked second only to Botswana on the African continent, and everyone in the world could see that Namibia was far less corrupt than other countries in Africa or in the world.

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