Deteriorating Public Service

BAB FROM VAALGRAS WRITES:I’m herewith making a clarion appeal to the President-Elect, Cde. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. Come 21 March 2025 within the next 96 hours, please make sure that Namibia has a very strong vibrant Prime Minister, like the founding Prime Minister and the first non-Oshiwambo President, the Late Hage Godfried Geingob, the notion that Late Kazanambo Kazenambo was advocating for.Cde. Geingob has built, shaped and revamped the Public Service from scratch. There was no “business as usual” at the beginning, but it slowed down over the years. STRONG PRIME MINISTERWe know African politics and the lifespan of our liberation movements, which is of course only 30 years, then they go down the drain. People stop to believe their cheap politics and empty election promises.Only a very strong Prime Minister, which I don’t see in my imagination, will rescue this country. First of all, the Prime Minister must understand that he/she is running the entire administration of the country. Leave alone several senior cabinet portfolios, viz. Finance, Trade, Agriculture, International Relations, Urban & Development, which is running the whole country, Defence and Home Affairs, just to mention, but a few. The overall performances of Government offices, agencies and ministries are quite worrying and alarming. The receptionists are not even answering incoming calls at Regional Councils, Constituency Councillors Offices and Trade Ministry etc. They leave the Reception unattended, what an embarrassment for a Government office and what telephone etiquette do you expect, if they ever pick up the phone?Furthermore, responding to incoming correspondences, be it queries, enquiries and whatever, not even an acknowledgement of receipt of an email letter or whatsoever is a non-issue. The Prime Minister must take on the Executive Directors and they must take on Regional Directors and Chief Executive Officers of Municipalities and Local Authorities etc. It requires a top down approach to revitalize and revamp the public and private sectors. We will fail in our duty, if we are mum or leave out the role the Ministry of commercialized State-Owned Enterprises should be playing, so that they should stop relying on Government bailouts and instead pay dividends to the major shareholder, the Central Government.The Prime Minister must be hands-on, awake and on his/her feet to lead the country in the right direction. We must systematically strive to bring in young blood for a better tomorrow and start to phase out the elders to go and rest and to enjoy their retirement in style. They must be made to understand that they have finished the race and need a rest, because they still qualify for the State funerals and all benefits etc. We stop tribalism, racism, regionalism and everything or terminologies that end in “ism”, as Dr. Geingob used to warn. It’s stirring civil wars, tribal conflicts and division among communities, because civil starts when diplomacy fails.* Rubrieke, meningstukke, briewe en SMS’e deur lesers en meningvormers weerspieël nie noodwendig die siening van Republikein of Network Media Hub (NMH) nie. As mediahuis onderskryf NMH die etiese kode vir Namibiese media, soos toegepas deur die Media-ombudsman.

Deteriorating Public Service

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Republikein 2026-02-03

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