THE president of the Democratic Party of Namibia (DPN), Salomon Dawid Isaacks, has responded angrily to a comment made by the party’s information officer, Timotheus Pieter, on the outcome of the opposition’s court challenge of the 2009 National Assembly election.
In a story headlined ‘Split reaction on election verdict’ in Tuesday’s edition of The Namibian, Pieter was quoted as saying: ‘There is no justice system; justice is meant for the people but this is not the case. The only option for Namibia is to do what is now happening in Tunisia and Egypt. We will organise ourselves. This judgement was cooked.’ In response, Isaacks said: ‘By no way our party will condone any revolutionary actions whatsoever to change a dispensation. We’ll guard against such type of attitude from whichever source because we want a harmonious society’. Isaacks said Pieter had made the remark without consulting the party’s top brass. ‘What might have happened in Egypt and Tunisia is situation bound and does not have anything to do with the Namibian society,’ Isaacks emphasised. When asked about his opinion on the court verdict, Isaacks accused the judges of being biased. ‘The merits of the case were not handled as [they] should have been and it appears that [the] judges defended the respondents in the case,’ said Isaacks. ‘We [opposition parties] will definitely contest the outcome on another level,’ he vowed. luqman@namibian.com.na
