RDP Youth calls on deputy education minister to quit

THE Rally for Democracy and Progress Youth League (RDPYL) has called for the forensic audit report on the GIPF issues to be made public, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to be dissolved, and Education Deputy Minister David Namwandi to be removed from the post.

Speaking at a media briefing in Windhoek on Sunday, Sibuku Malumbango, secretary general of the RDPYL, expressed condolences to the families of those who had died due to extreme cold weather in the Karas and Hardap regions.Malumbango said a number of resolutions had been taken at the RDPYL’s first Central Committee meeting last month. Malumbango called for the ACC to be dissolved, saying that it did not fulfil the purpose for which it was intended. ‘Its failure to bring to task those involved in the ODC, NDF, Teko, SSC and NamPower cases because they are politically well connected shows that the ACC has become a tool for the powers that be to pretend that they are serious about fighting corruption,’ Malumbango said.Turning his attention to ongoing GIPF saga, Malumbango called for the reports of the previous 17 presidential commissions of inquiry as wells as the recent forensic audit report on the GIPF to be made public ‘without delay or being doctored.’The RDPYL secretary general said that ‘ongoing intimidation’ by the Swapo Party will no longer be tolerated. Malumbango called for all areas of Namibia to be freely accessible to all political parties to conduct political campaigns.Malumbango further called for Education Deputy Minister David Namwandi to be moved to another ministry due to his involvement in the International University of Management (IUM).’There is serious conflict of interest in this instance, as IUM receives funding from the Ministry of Education,’ Malumbango said.The RDPYL also called for banned or censored public opinion programmes on national radio to be reintroduced.It also called for an end to the practice of appointing judges in an acting claiming that this makes them vulnerable to politicians to whom they look for renewal or termination of their contracts.’President Hifikepunye Pohamba must also stop appointing judges who he knows are political activists for his party, and those who own private firms that represent clients in the courts,’ Malumbango said.Turning his attention to local law enforcement agencies, Malumbango lashed out against the Windhoek City Police, Nampol and in particular members of the Special Field Force, saying that ‘they are in most cases abusing their power and brutalising the members of the public in the name of maintaining law and order.’