Redemption and Revenge
Redemption is a dish best eaten on the front page of a big daily, especially if that dish is served with a dash of revenge and a sprinkling of middle finger sauce.
Buying the Tuesday edition of The Namibian from my friendly street vendor I nearly farted out loud in the taxi. “No, shit!” I screamed in a shrill voice. Inadvertently sounding like Chi-Chi on that show on NBC, which is OK for Chi-Chi but not for a 100kg 55-year-old white dude, in a pink shirt and white pants.
I digress.
Seeing our Nahas closely cropped like that while towering above a headline that screams out so much more than redemption and revenge. It was as if he said oh yeah! A la Marlene Mungunda, just as the picture was taken.
And didn’t the whole story and picture just say, “up yours, suck on this and who’s your daddy now?”
Some of his comrades (otherwise known as his political enemies) were rolling with laughter, pissing themselves when the former Prime Minister was ‘demoted’ in the last cabinet reshuffle. And isn’t ‘revenge’ just an ice cold, shameless, uapologetic bitch?
I detected just a slight hint of glee in our Nahas’ quote, “some of the benefits have not changed.” He was refering to the suggestion that the story made, that he was just moved sideways and still enjoyed the trappings (including his erstwhile plush cavalcade) of the Prime Minister’s position he occupied not so long ago.
The story also suggested, not so subtly, that the one formerly known as The Prodigal Son, has brought a bit of baggage with him to the PM’s position, he now occupies. So much baggage, the appointing authority deemed it necesary to move him up, closer to the big house, so that he too can enjoy the trappings a Chosen One deserves. Trappings such as improved security.
Is Lukas telling us that the improved security means The One Who Arrived isn’t so well loved as the Congress outcome suggested? That some may want to visit harm upon his heinie? Never! Not him! Never?
But then I cast my eye to the right of that story.
Horror!
How could they? That’s not what comrades do to each other. Swapo have gone and done the unthinkable. They’ve dragged their own comrades to court for daring to help themselves to the contents of their father’s wallet while he lies unconcious in his own vomit on a Sunday morning.
Is it revenge against the comrades for behaving uncomradely or is Swapo trying to redeem itself by acting against the unruly comrades with the grab-at-all-cost tendencies?
For allegedly trying to steal from Swapo’s considerable wealth, Teckla Lameck and Kongo Mokaxwa will have to pitch their tents close to the courts for the next few months. Remember them from the most traumatised bank account on the planet? Maybe Swapo wants to restore the pride and good reputation the Teko Trading bank account lost.
It’s the same Teckla Lameck who generously donated N$100 000 to Sam Nujoma’s birthday party in 2009.
Swapo-owned transport company, Namib Contract Haulage wants N$1,5 million from the former chairperson of its board of directors, Lameck, and the company’s former financial manager, Mokaxwa.
Apparently these guys went and bought trucks for their own company on NCH’s account. How do you run a transport company while you work for or serve on the board of another transport company? Only in Namibia...
Now who would have thought Swapo of all people would be so uncomradely? I guess someone in Swapo argued that if you are acused of stealing from both the State and the party, your ass needs to consult some seriously expensive lawyers. Revenge?
Cold, very cold.
Someone rinse the bowls. We are finally about to feast on some redemption for the right and righteous. Or maybe it’s early days yet.
– rambler@namibian.com.na