Time For The Uneducated to Lead SOEs

I blame all the educated people for running all the failing Namibian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) into the ground, and I call for them to make way for the uneducated.

I therefore suggest that the government take into consideration adding one or two uneducated individuals to each board of directors, because it appears that when the knowledgeable buddies get together, the brains go numb.

So while you pack your bags, dear alumni, please explain how on earth you cannot keep trains on the rails?

What-is-Shilongo with you?

Only people with degrees, MBAs, and doctorates are running Namibian SOEs. You’d think we’re protected, wouldn’t you?

To be appointed to the boards of directors of SOEs, candidates must need advanced degrees in subjects like law and accounting.

Even chartered accountants are mentioned.

You’d think that would be sufficient, wouldn’t you?

Top executives and executive directors of line ministries have advanced degrees. They are actually so recycled you would think they would understand efficiency, but they don’t!

Imagination, dololo.

Improvisation, dololo.

Guts, dololo.

You have no proof that uneducated people cannot run TransNamib, Telecom, or any other SOE, but we all know that educated people have been running these and many other SOEs forever.

Yet the TN Mobile signal goes only as far as the toilet, TransNamib’s trains prefer to run on their sides or backs, and Nida loses cows and blames it on a lack of funds.

Air Namibia is dead and buried, Amta is a vegetable, Fishcor smells fishy, and so much more is no more.

All of these are run by the educated elite.

You see, an uneducated person would walk across to Shoprite, buy a lightbulb, and replace it themselves. The educated would wait until the entire building is in the dark so that a tender can be issued for changing the light bulbs.

Don’t tell me about procurement regulations, because those too are drawn up by educated people.

Or maybe they are just careless with the people’s resources and institutions, because nobody ever gets their asses kicked for driving any institution into the gutters.

Another plausible explanation is that they simply do not care much for this country, because they get up to things they would never allow in their own houses.

You are now screaming that this is not a well-researched submission, but why would you expect that from me when I am uneducated?

I left my school when I heard the break-time bell, as I thought it was the final one. I did not hear the bell to signal the end of break time, because I was already at Single Quarters eating omakondo.

But you went all the way to the end of education and came back believing the Earth is flat.

I urge all uneducated Namibians to intentionally apply to be appointed to boards of directors with our thin CVs, because our time is now to save this country. Sara Kasim

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