Always act in interests of people, urges Usiku

THE former president of the Namibia National Teachers Union (Nantu), Vilbard Usiku, has called on the union’s leadership to do everything in its power to recover money that went missing in 2000.

An amount of N$2 million could not be accounted for after the union paid for an upmarket office complex in Windhoek’s Uhland Street. This led to the union being forced out of the building.Speaking at the launch of the Nantu and Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) head office and guest house in Windhoek on Saturday, Usiku pointed to the difficulties Nantu had experienced at the end of 2002 when its head office was taken away from it.He said that the degrading dispossession and accompanying humiliation were attributed to an irresponsible and ethically deficient leadership that squandered and embezzled the union’s resources.”We as leaders ought, at all times, to realise that our main pre-occupation should be that of serving the interest of the people that we lead and the interest of the organisations that we are entrusted to run,” he said.He said people entrusted with responsibility should not enrich themselves at the expense of the institutions they were supposed to run and protect.”History will judge us harshly if we dare to do that,” he added.- NampaThis led to the union being forced out of the building.Speaking at the launch of the Nantu and Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) head office and guest house in Windhoek on Saturday, Usiku pointed to the difficulties Nantu had experienced at the end of 2002 when its head office was taken away from it.He said that the degrading dispossession and accompanying humiliation were attributed to an irresponsible and ethically deficient leadership that squandered and embezzled the union’s resources.”We as leaders ought, at all times, to realise that our main pre-occupation should be that of serving the interest of the people that we lead and the interest of the organisations that we are entrusted to run,” he said.He said people entrusted with responsibility should not enrich themselves at the expense of the institutions they were supposed to run and protect.”History will judge us harshly if we dare to do that,” he added.- Nampa