No oohs and ahs for public service

IF you thought Lady May was a problem child for calling you a ‘mother f&cker’ last year, you obviously have not browsed the work computers of some public servants, which contain not a stitch of work but porn for days, s’true.

I can tell you a lot of things that are wrong in this country, but up until recently, I could never quite lay my finger on the reason behind the limp joke that is customer service at some government departments.For the longest time, there was nothing and no one to specifically pin down for the flop that is called ‘service’ offered to us by what seem to be a spent force.Lo and behold, the answer finally hit us last week, and like Kazenambo Kazenambo’s raging temper, it hit us hard – our public servants are too busy watching porn during working hours.Paulus Noa and his Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last week revealed that they conducted investigations at Government departments where they seized desktop computers only to find pornographic pictures and no work- related documents saved on them.Who’s the problem child now, huh? It’s a well known fact that porn is not a foreign concept in so-called ‘conservative’ Namibia. On many occasions, we’ve seen circulated home-made videos of school girls and especially university students showcasing their specialised skills. It just never occurred to me that the trend extended beyond the bedrooms of some public servants all the way to their government offices, and that it’s being exercised during working hours – and all this while you are paid with my TAX money.The revelation finally explains the retarded processes and lack of energy exhibited by a tired workforce even though these public servants do not have enough work to keep them busy?Get a hobby! Is porn during office hours their only escape?Of course it all makes sense now … why some government phones, no matter how many times you call, are never answered – as it turns out, for every government phone call gone unanswered, there’s a horny government employee sitting behind a desk watching porn.This revelation by the ACC actually also fills in the blanks as to why some of our government employees are completely clueless when it comes to what their jobs are all about, and why some officials are always too ‘busy’ to see or assist clients – no guessing what they’re ‘busy’ with anymore.Perhaps this also explains why some government buildings have funny smells – fwi tog. No, I’m not referring to slapchips.As a rule some of these uncivil servants should come with a warning label reading ‘shake my hand at your own risk’.What is to become of us as a nation when our priorities and intentions are not upright and stain-free?And we claim to be so conservative.Remember how outraged some people were when someone suggested we supply prisoners with condoms? Now these very people oversee ministries and departments where the only thing that gets employees up and running is unbelievably well endowed men ‘performing’ unbelievably strange acts on unbelievably flexible women, complete with fake murmurs.I guess the next time you see that very busy looking government official, you ought to be careful not to disturb as s/he might just be having and ‘intimate moment’.You lot need deliverance!

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