SMSes for Monday 25 February 2013
SMS Of The Day *OUR so called Public Service is a factory of failure and disgrace. N$375 million owed in study loans with documents in a messy state and debtors files vanishing. Who cares!
Food for Thought
*WHEN will Namibian leaders and the nation realise that it takes competence and integrity to spearhead a government institution, parastatal or any other institution? Air Namibia, NSFAF and other leading institutions are in financial trouble due to nepotism, greed and sheer poor decision making by management. Why is this tolerated?
*I AM concerned, some people are running cash loans without a permit or license and charge 40 percent interest but they don’t bother to pay tax.
*What are principles of good governance? They are transparency, accountability, value for money and participation among others. These principles are hardly adhered to in Namibia and exacerbate corruption to flourish in the public and private sectors.
*PRIME Minister, please introduce performance management systems (PMS) in all ministries.
*NAMIBIA has enough sun, wind and sea. We can harvest our electricity from those natural resources. Engineers, start working on these sources please.
*HIFIKEPUNYE Pohamba, I’m begging you kindly to remind the City of Windhoek that one of the main factors that forced Namibians to react against colonialism, was the land issue. We want to own land and not rent flats. If you walk around Katutura there are flats all over. Please, this kind of business must be stopped because it leads the nation into homelessness, that’s why most people are squatting in shacks. Municipality must sell land to the people and not to money hungry property developers.
*NAMIBIANS, please help me understand something with regard to the Oscar Pistorius saga. Are burglars not human beings with a right to life? Oscar’s defence team is arguing that murder was not committed because Oscar thought he was shooting a burglar; a ‘burglar’ that he had absolutely no interaction with. The ‘burglar’ did not confront, threaten or provoke him in any way, and was supposedly hiding, cornered, in the toilet. Even if this had been the case, would that mean that he had a right to kill (you don’t shoot at a cornered person four times if you don’t mean to kill) this person?
Bouquets and Brickbats
*YOUR article in the Friday 22 edition on the Congolese gynaecologist, Dr Mukwenge brought tears to my eyes.
*PRAISE to the consumer group for achieving something for us, the consumers. Namibia, get rid of genetically modified food!
*I am very proud of the performance of Mighty Gunners FC for the last two games they played. 6:0 is not a joke. I would like to encourage you to win the Bidvest trophy. Viva Gunners!
*THUMBS up for Hage Geingob on the address of the permanent secretaries, reminding them about issues of good governance. People are truly starting to lose faith in government because of a lack of good governance which in some cases are being compromised by some permanent secretaries. If the Prime Minister addresses this scourge the whole population will rally behind you.
*CAN someone show Home Affairs’ Lydia Kandetu how to prepare herself for an interview. She was an embarrassment on NBC. Repeating herself, staring blankly into space, and saying ‘you know’ more than 30 times in the first three minutes. She looked like she’d come straight from a party!
*FIRST genocide, now insults. The German Ambassador’s blatant disrespect of the second highest office in the country should compel the German head of state to recall his new unpopular ambassador before any further damage is done to our bilateral relations. Failing to do so, the entire Namibian nation will not hesitate to march to the German embassy.
*HOW the mighty have fallen, poor Julius Malema really cut a lonely figure in the paper. No money, no lawyers and worst of all no friends.
*NAMIBIANS; who is reading the New Era newspaper? Even if it was free, I wouldn’t read it. What a waste of tax payers’ money! Joel Kaapanda, get real and get your house in order or step down!
*DO the men of this world know that when they grab their private parts in public, whether dancing, singing or simply fiddling with whatever size they have, they really look uncivilised and disgusting? In my opinion most of those who do it display low self-esteem. They don’t have anything meaningful down there.
*NBC; when are we going to listen to the Silozi and Rukavango radio services in the Erongo Region? We miss a lot when it comes to cultural programmes and death announcements.
*IAN Collard of Namib Mills, the writing is on the wall with GMOs. Your company has laboratories on site and a quality mission statement. How can you have no control measures in place if your slogan is “we feed the nation”? Are you making us sick to make money? What about your imported wheat?
*THE government will only react to this disturbing escalation of violence against women and children when one of their own family members is killed, just like when one of the ministers cattle were stolen. The law was changed so quickly to make the thieves liable. The government is meant to protect its people but our Government only does things to benefit politicians and their family members. What do you think would happen if the president’s daughter was kidnapped, raped and killed? The whole country would come to a complete standstill. Fed up of this.
Skirting the issue
*THE problem is that the world has become obsessed with ‘sexy’. To church, you want to look ‘sexy’; to work – sexy; to school – sexy; the beach – sexy; the club – sexy; Whatever happened to ‘decent’? Did ‘decent’ fade out of fashion? Is ‘decent’ a fashion trend or a way of portraying good morals?
*PEOPLE of Namibia; how fake of our nation to pretend to be decent Christians in public and commit the biggest sins behind the Christian shield. If you want to be a Christian and wear your long skirt, let that be your problem. Don’t force others, we call that peer pressure.
*HERE are a few more non-African things: Soccer, cell phones, electricity, running water, sewerage systems, salaries, credit cards, aeroplanes, cars and bicycles. Are we to stop using these as well?
*Private parts are not for public consumption! A big no to mini skirts.
*HIS miniskirt business is utter nonsense. Free the miniskirt! Free Lazarus Shaduka! Oh wait, my bad!
*NEWS of the day: Driver got distracted by a girl’s miniskirt and crashed into another car. The girl got arrested for causing the accident.
*IT’S time to change our mindsets, not skirt lengths.
*AS a responsible parent, I should never allow my school-going children to wear miniskirts. I don’t buy them either. Parents, be responsible for both the education and moral ethics of your children.
*THUMBS up for Sebastian Ndeitunga! All parents, public and spiritual leaders let us back up Sebastian Ndeitunga and restore our public decency! This is a wakeup call for parents, teachers and the church to teach our girls to maintain a modest dress code.
*SEBASTIAN Ndeitunga, you say that miniskirts are the cause of rape, that is one big fat lie. Now you are simply giving men reason to rape women.
*NO miniskirts! No voting! Why are we made criminals for what we wear when we purchase what we wear with our hard earned money? While the real criminals are out there free.
Responses to Previous SMSes
*Whoever you are who is using technical jargon to to justify what happened to the Florence Nightingale Road into Khomasdal: I do not buy or believe what you have stated because the surface of the road is now worse than it was. Let us see the tender you refer to. I am a resident who uses that road daily. Furthermore, there was no need to work on that road at that time in December. Now you come with the pretext that it was a priority. I maintain that the digging up of Florence Nightingale was not necessary and smacks of corruption. This is unacceptable and I intend addressing the matter with the municipality.
SMS
*Sebastian Ndeitunga we are tired of being given classes of basic and advanced investigation courses by unqualified instructors with the same knowledge as us. How long will we have unqualified instructors?
RESPONSE
The criteria that Nampol embarks upon when appointing members as instructors of advanced investigations courses are:
Members must have undergone the basic police training;
Must have policing and investigations at heart;
Must have undergone the basic and advanced investigations training;
Must have practical investigations background;
Must have passed the required investigations trainings and be appointed as a detective by the Inspector General of the Namibian Police Force;
Must have undergone instructional skills training
Must apply and meet all the requirements to become an instructor.
As much as we value and strive to employ qualified trainers, being a law graduate alone does not warrant automatic appointment as an instructor or best detective. However, this is highly regarded as one of the good attributes to being a good detective or trainer in this field. Trainer vacancies especially of criminal investigations are always advertised as a normal practice and members with tertiary qualifications are encouraged to apply and have greater chances to be selected, provided they meet all other criteria. Furthermore, because a trainer will impart knowledge and skills to other members, it is expected that such member must have an interest in being a trainer.
The author is advised to conduct in depth research on the reasons behind the registration of those with tertiary qualifications which certainly is not because they were not taken up as trainers.
It is somehow regrettable that the member failed to raise his/her grievances and or opinion internally before taking it to The Namibian . As a result it ended up causing the unnecessarily wrong perception and causing a negative impact to the good name and image of the Namibian police force. Our requests to the concerned officer is that he/she should rather visit the relevant offices within the force in order to raise his/her concerns and or grievances.
– Deputy commissioner Edwin Kanguatjivi