PSUN to become more proactive

THE Public Service Union of Namibia (PSUN) has vowed to be more outspoken on matters involving corruption and mismanagement in Government this year.

In a statement released on Friday, PSUN secretary general Victor Kazonyati says that in the past he had reasons for adopting the ‘silence of the tomb mode in the face of massive injustice that is visited on the poor voiceless and utterly unfortunate majority of the people’ of Namibia.’I will join the multitudes of those who, without fail bewail the abuse, the battering and the injustice that is experienced by the masses that we represent – as we ought to be their voice after all,’ Kazonyati’s statement reads.According to Kazonyati, 2012 has started with the same ‘grim realities’ of previous years, both before and after independence.’A nation of less than three million people bequeathed with massive natural wealth – where the only news ought to be about glittering achievements, unbridled enjoyment and bliss, the exact opposite is actually the case,’ Kazonyati says.According to the PSUN secretary general, Namibia is a nation beset with greed and corruption on the one hand and untold suffering, starvation and hunger on the other hand.Kazonyati says Namibians have managed to replace the German colonial and South African apartheid regimes with just another unjust system. He further questions what justification Government has for the ‘rot at the Tender Board’, the ‘rot at the GIPF,’ the ‘rot in the hospitals and the education institutions,’ as well as widespread unemployment and hunger.According to Kazonyati, Namibians with the skills and expertise to build dams are sidelined in favour of ‘untested foreign dam builders’, which leaves ‘our people in the lurch and dying of hunger.’Kazonyati believes that if the Namibian economy is ‘optimally harnessed’ the country would be able to employ and feed all its people, as well a number of foreigners.