Spend Shrine Money On The Living
I AM begging President Pohamba not to go ahead and spend millions of dollars on the heroism of King Mandume and King Iipumbu while those two individuals’ grandchildren have no money to go to school to become doctors, scientists, engineers, surgeons, chemists, biologists and so forth.
We need all these types of people to bring our country to full independence. Namibia is not yet independent until we have these types of people. Independence means to feed yourself and take care for yourself by doing things independently.
Comrade President, if you go ahead and spend that money on those dead individuals while you are ignoring thousands of young people in Namibia who are struggling to find money for their education. Please, I beg you Comrade President, spend that money on all the young people who want to become doctors, scientists, engineers, surgeons, chemists, biologists and so forth.
Do you know what is in the food you are buying from the stores, the water you are drinking, the air in your office or your own house? Who is testing all these things for you? President, there are many things happening in Namibia which you don’t know because we trust foreigners instead of our own people.
Let me suggest how you should spend that money. Take three Grade 12 students from each tribe in Namibia and send them to foreign countries to study. All the Namibians will not forget you for 10 000 years. If you don’t do this, your own words that “it would be self-defeating if the Swapo party members allowed themselves to be swayed from the path of fighting for the well-being of all our people,” will come true.
Swapo was created to fight for the well-being of all our people in Namibia. It was not created to fight for the well-being of Mbukushus, Kwanyamas or Damaras only. All Namibian tribes’ children died in that war.
When I begged the Western countries and especially the Canadian government with tears to take my stories to the UN Security Council and to send a team to Swapo camps for the release of those who were in the dugout prisons, I did that based on the well-being of all my people. I did not do that based on tribalism or regionalism. So, please Comrade President, think about my begging and use that money for Mandume and Iipumbu’s grandchildren.
Lyangurungunda
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