MPs Should Not Manage Our Money

I AM at a loss! Does more money give a parliamentarian a higher social status? Do you think that the money the parliamentarians of Kenya gave themselves improved their status? I say, on the contrary, the whole world – with the obvious exception of our Namibian parliamentarians – despises these ‘honourable’ politicians and any righteous man scorns them and even the Kenyans themselves gave them nothing more than a good mouthful and not their raise.

And isn’t it ‘funny’, these despicable grabbers are the heroes? Now we know their ethics! If someone in today’s Namibia cannot live on a basic salary [excluding perks] of N$540,000 a year, he or she cannot work with money. Then these persons should not be allowed to work with our money.
They should be excluded from the yearly budget debate. Obviously, it is good that they have no real say in how our government spends our money; they would only make a mess of it. The same mess they make with their salaries – if the money available is too little, we have to do with a messy situation and it doesn’t matter if the situation is private or public. One has to manage what one has.
How many of our old and disabled people have to cope with the extremely little these same parliamentarians give them? The pensioners get N$550 a month. Some of the parliamentarians say they cannot retire ‘because their money is not enough’. Well, what if the elderly living on old age pensions alone take a stand and ‘demand’ too?
Or is equality also only a fake-equality in Namibia, the land of the fake-braves, the fake-democrats with its fake independent parliament? Namibia, we pity you! With these ‘leaders’ your way forward will soon lead you into a Congo-like situation. Will we ever hear the outcry of this nation in response to the demands of those who are so shamefully unable to deliver?
We shall listen for that cry!

U. L. Cover (Sen.)
By E-mail

*Be under no illusion. Lawmakers very much determine how the money in the budget is spent. – Ed

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