End the lip-service

BAB WRITES FROM ||KHARAS:

We, as Namibians irrespective of political affiliation had a common goal and were united during the liberation struggle for independence. We wanted to be freed from the yoke of the apartheid colonizer and oppression.

However, the fruits that we are enjoying and reaping today is not what we sacrificed for. It reflects something different in terms of inequalities, inequities, the unemployment rate, poverty levels and visible reverse subterranean racial discrimination.

We are being governed or treated on a 3:2 out of five (5) ratio, if not more than that in favour of the majority ethnic tribal group and the other two (2) from the minority ethnic groups.

Just look at the Presidency position itself. There is only one non-Oshi­wambo president out of three and probably the last one.

Is it not clear enough? Is it not a wake-up call?

If one listens to the repeated utterances of the politicians with regard to employment creation, who even went to the extent to establish a directorate in the Labour Ministry, you will be shocked to see what have been done so far to create jobs, or is implementation, as usual, the major stumbling block?

I concede with Cde. President, who said during the 32nd independence celebration that the Government is only there to facilitate and to create the enabling environment.

We are indeed being divided by ethnicity along racial lines. Therefore, I strongly feel it is high time for the ruling party affiliated, well-connected elite politicians to put their words into actions 32 years after independence and to henceforth stop their lip-service. We have been coming on with this for too long now.