Corruption in Government
ALLOW me a space in your newspaper to express my view about corruption in our government.
The Namibian Government is very corrupt.
If you mention this, ordinary people will agree with you, but
leaders will deny it.
They will feel insulted.
Why am I saying our government is corrupt? Because our
Government is just overspending public funds on wrong priorities,
bad planning or on an excessive bureaucracy e.g. they spend
taxpayer's money on Heroes Acre and the new State House.
If I am not mistaken only 14 percent (%) of the Namibian
population are benefitting from the Namibian economy while the rest
of population is suffering.
I will have no doubt in stating that this is the self enrichment
behavior of corruption, because our Government has failed in terms
of priorities such as enough tertiary institutions, better health
centres, and indiscriminate distribution of food relief in the
country.
A lot of school leavers are just walking the streets and medical
treatment in our hospitals is poor this is proven by the fact that
our Ministers go to Germany or France for special treatment.
In this situation, there will be a lot of money floating in the
hands of a, rather small group or high-ranking Government officials
or other bureaucrats.
You will also find people who have stolen money from his or her
department in our government, but nothing happens to him or her,
only that he or she will be changed from one department to the
other.
Why are these people not punished? A lot public inquiries have
been appointed by our President and reports have been compiled but
no action is taken and the reports are just lying in their offices
but they cost us so much money as taxpayers.
What is the need of wasting our money like this? This proves
that our Government leaders tolerate corruption.
Corruption must stop! In order for all Namibian citizens to
equally share the fruits of this country the Government should be
accountable, transparent and honest towards its citizens, and it is
not doing so.
If you look at the UN Human Development Index it shows that the
GDP per capital is high, at the same time the human poverty index
is also high which means the country has enough to feed its
citizens, and this is simple a question of distributing the
resources equitably to its citizens.
Now the high-ranking officials have increased their salaries,
while at the same time refusing to increase our senior citizens'
pensions.
I know that corruption may cause a lot of negative things to our
country e.g. crime, unemployment, poverty, hunger, disease,
inflation, or even unrest etc. and it is therefore our
responsibility, both the government and citizens of this country,
to do everything in our power in order to fight corruption, but
first the government must put laws in place to combat it.
The Namibian Government must stop corruption today, and not
tomorrow! I hope that our leaders understand!
Ananias Aipinge Kaseven
Windhoek
If you mention this, ordinary people will agree with you, but
leaders will deny it.They will feel insulted.Why am I saying our
government is corrupt? Because our Government is just overspending
public funds on wrong priorities, bad planning or on an excessive
bureaucracy e.g. they spend taxpayer's money on Heroes Acre and the
new State House.If I am not mistaken only 14 percent (%) of the
Namibian population are benefitting from the Namibian economy while
the rest of population is suffering.I will have no doubt in stating
that this is the self enrichment behavior of corruption, because
our Government has failed in terms of priorities such as enough
tertiary institutions, better health centres, and indiscriminate
distribution of food relief in the country.A lot of school leavers
are just walking the streets and medical treatment in our hospitals
is poor this is proven by the fact that our Ministers go to Germany
or France for special treatment.In this situation, there will be a
lot of money floating in the hands of a, rather small group or
high-ranking Government officials or other bureaucrats.You will
also find people who have stolen money from his or her department
in our government, but nothing happens to him or her, only that he
or she will be changed from one department to the other.Why are
these people not punished? A lot public inquiries have been
appointed by our President and reports have been compiled but no
action is taken and the reports are just lying in their offices but
they cost us so much money as taxpayers.What is the need of wasting
our money like this? This proves that our Government leaders
tolerate corruption.Corruption must stop! In order for all Namibian
citizens to equally share the fruits of this country the Government
should be accountable, transparent and honest towards its citizens,
and it is not doing so.If you look at the UN Human Development
Index it shows that the GDP per capital is high, at the same time
the human poverty index is also high which means the country has
enough to feed its citizens, and this is simple a question of
distributing the resources equitably to its citizens.Now the
high-ranking officials have increased their salaries, while at the
same time refusing to increase our senior citizens' pensions.I know
that corruption may cause a lot of negative things to our country
e.g. crime, unemployment, poverty, hunger, disease, inflation, or
even unrest etc. and it is therefore our responsibility, both the
government and citizens of this country, to do everything in our
power in order to fight corruption, but first the government must
put laws in place to combat it.The Namibian Government must stop
corruption today, and not tomorrow! I hope that our leaders
understand!Ananias Aipinge Kaseven
Windhoek