Swapo party member Reinhold Shipwikineni has divorced the party due to what he terms a disregard of party members’ rights and corruption scandals.
This is contained in his letter dated 14 May directed to Swapo secretary general Sophia Shaningwa and party president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.
“It is with profound sadness that I am writing to inform you that I am terminating my membership of Swapo with immediate effect,” he said.
Shipwikineni said he has diligently served the party and its leadership at different levels, including the party’s youth league, for two decades.
He said the party’s businesses have been wrecked by corruption scandals with devastating consequences on the country’s governance and the lives of the working class for many years.
Shipwikineni claims the party did not invent corruption but inherited a state that was morally built on forms of corruption and racial discrimination.
“When we took over in 1990, we had the moral high ground and conviction to root out these systems, including the old boys and new boys that benefited from and engineered the Fishrot scandal,” he said.
This, Shipwikineni said, goes against his morals and can no longer be part of Swapo.
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