SMSes for Mon 06 Apr 09

* HONESTLY the misuse of Government vehicles will never stop. How many people have been arrested and revealed in newspapers? Yet it continues. – An observer
 
 Food For Thought
 * PEOPLE who steal from the State steal from the nation.

* HONESTLY the misuse of Government vehicles will never stop. How many people have been arrested and revealed in newspapers? Yet it continues. – An observer

Food For Thought
* PEOPLE who steal from the State steal from the nation. Why risk your job and family’s future, and how long has this been going on? GRN, ACC please investigate if this is also not happening in other GRN departments?
* IT’S a shame to always think people are out to use Namibian women! I believe women of this nation should feel insulted with the new law. In other words the Government is saying they cannot decide on their own happiness, they are dumb to be precise. – Malowe

Crime Busters
* THANKS to the City Police for an excellent job. Not forgetting The Namibian newspaper crew. A job well done. Keep the news coming and tell it like it is! – Brain
* THANK you City Police and NamPol for effectively dealing with criminals at the Pool Bar. The City Police need to be more empowered than the NDF to make Windhoek a crime-free capital. – Resident
* I REALLY would like to thank the City Police on the quick show-up in Ausspannplatz on April 2. I have one question. Can’t the City Police also be all over especially Town Square, in front of Standard Bank Independence Avenue and Wernhil or even everywhere for us to enjoy our salaries peacefully.
* ARMED robbery. Congratulations Windhoek cops. Keep up doing a good job. They tried to play big cowboys in a small town.
* I WANT to thank the Police officers who were involved in the shooting in Windhoek, Ausspannplatz area. Thanks for your quick response. Our Government must recruit more Police officers so that they can patrol every corner to catch more thieves! Keep it up!
* CITY Police we are so proud of you for the well-done job. Robbers deserve that. It’s the only way they will stop robbing people and those who are not dead should even not get bail.
* BLOODY shootout. Why are taxis always involved in criminal acts? Whether it’s murder, robberies and shootouts, a taxi is part of the crime. And on top of all this, most taxi drivers cannot drive a car properly. – Tobias

Bouquets And Brickbats
* THANK you The Namibian for bringing your paper to the North earlier on Fridays because I raised my complaint in the past weeks and you responded! Keep telling it like it is.
* SHAME on you Commissioner of Prisons. How can student pass out in overalls? Are we not in the same ministry as the the Police?
* A big thanks to the Rundu Town Council for providing streetlights in some of the streets in Safari! Please proceed with your endeavours!
* MTC, you have reduced your network to a children’s toy with your ‘free’ SMS offers. It’s becoming a joke. Some people are trying to run a business on your network and you’re denying them that with your incapacitated network. MTC and Cell One stop with your childish bickering. We don’t want Volvos, but to be able to communicate when we need to! Get it together!

Politics
* LET me also tell this ‘Swapo Party Government’ what Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu told the former Afrikaner and then ANC governments: ‘You may have power now but you are not God’. – R Gaes
* ALL political parties were first formed on a tribal basis including Swapo. Therefore the President needs to stop criticism on new political parties. We need a change and our hope is in those new political parties.
* GRN 49 Camry has a Swapo flag audaciously hanging from the rear-view mirror. This is totally out of line. It is a Government and not a private car. Please remove it. – Taxpayer

The Long Wait
* 10 Years for citizenship. Think about this being slapped on Namibians in other countries married to other nationalities. Think outside the box also.

Telecom Responds
* TELECOM Namibia wants to thank our client who alerted us of poor services at Katima. Kindly call us at 061 2012448 for us to help you. We also wish to remind the public that Telecom does not depend on bailouts to finance its business operations. – Oiva Angula

General
* TRAFFIC: I agree with an SMS dated April 2 an amnesty for traffic tickets instead of harshly arrested without any warning or reminder. Please consider this.
* (WINDHOEK) Municipality, on the hill between the Western bypass, Sam Nujoma Drive bridge and Vaalhoek suburb, water is coming out of the ground. Please attend to it!

Running the Show
* VETERANS’ Affairs Minister Ngarikutuke Tjiriange might have faith and confidence in Government because he has been a Minister Without Portfolio. What instigates war veterans to demand payouts is poverty, hunger and unemployment and not any other ‘agent provocateurs’. Please, give the ex-fighters what is due to them: money and not projects. The projects must go to ‘struggle kids’ and the ‘born-frees’.
* DR Tjiriange has got it wrong. Poverty is never synonymous with stupidity. We, the war veterans, are not being instigated by anyone in the drive to demand our rights. We have the innate sense to know what we deserve and we have the right to make a choice by ourselves. Being in Parliament does not give you the right to ride on our backs and impose on us anything you feel like. We are human beings, and grown up for that matter.
* CAN our President please make a decision like (US President) Barack Obama to declare bankruptcy on parastatals with poor decision-making which can’t be excused? Obama wants to do it with GM and Chrysler. Why not Air Namibia and New Era?
* CAN the Ministry of Home Affairs please clarify: If I have already applied for a passport in February, should I still bring my proof of travel for it to be printed and issued to me or does the new law only apply to those who will apply as from now on? The Namibian team, can u help me in clarifying this?
* I AM convinced that if the Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture is dissolved and incorporated as directorates into other ministries then it will deliver an effective and efficient service as the current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. For example Youth into Child Welfare; National Service into Defence or Safety and Security; Sport into Education and Culture into Regional and Local Government.
* AS I understand from your report the Auditor General is 10 years late with his report on the Sea Fisheries Fund. His excuse payments had been made out of the funds without supporting documents. Sir please wake up. Any payment made out of any fund without such documents is fraudulent and should be reported to the Police.
* HOW can the Ministry of Home Affairs claim they receive 60 000 passport applications per month – that’s 720 000 per year – when we only have about 2,4 million citizens of which half are children? As Namibians we have the right to travel when we want and don’t have to give several months’ notice. The Ministry must pull up its socks!
* THEY say our Budget is a three-year rolling Budget, but it is managed by a day-to-day rolling mess called the Public Service. No application forms for IDs, no paper at Foreign Affairs and passport blanks are drying up fast. It all adds to last year’s no police clearances for vehicles and few or no cheques at Finance.

In And From the Regions
* ONDANGWA residents, shame on you! Why are you so quiet since your houses got flooded. Do you think the council will improve the drainage system if you don’t take action? You’ll face a more serious dilemma next year!
* WILL the flood situation be repeated annually? Do we have a plan which will re-direct flood waters through a canal to the ocean? We cannot afford to lose lives every year. Let’s plan now for the next raining season, please! – WP

Labour Issues
* OLD Mutual, when are our pension, retrenchment cheques coming? We have been waiting for too long now. – LLD ex-employees
* CAN the management of Ai
r Namibia please explain why they are doing training for cabin crew members over the Easter weekend. Friday, April 9 is Easter Friday! Training is not an essential service, neither an emergency, no wonder Air Namibia is in a constant mess!

ACC Alert
n WE (NIMT students) signed papers for Government study loans of N$16 000 and N$3 000 of that money should be given to students for transport at the beginning of the semester, but up to now we have not received that money. This is just a tip of the iceberg. Anti-Corruption Commission act now please!

Road Hogs
* THE driver of a white Toyota Corolla taxi N108022W should value other road users’ lives if he does not value his own. Changing lanes, as he did in Hosea Kutako Drive, without due consideration is dangerous, and our precious lives do not cost N$7,50. – Petrina
* TAXI trash. Will the authorities please do something about the taxi drivers who throw out their trash into the street as they are driving. I am referring to N36410W and N116438W.

Service Please
* I WOULD like to know where I can complain about not receiving satisfactory customer service from Lewis Stores in Oranjemund? I have already spoken to the regional manager without success. What is the next step?
* I’M writing this text as I’m standing in FNB John Meinert Street. I came to replace my Bob card which doesn’t work but there has been no-one at the cards section for one hour and half. Is that what we call service?
* HOW long is too long? I applied for my vehicle clearance that I had bought on March 25. Until now they always say not yet finished I go to town or phone them. Can the responsible officer please reply. How long does it take? – Concerned applicant Windhoek