Elections were free and fair

By Kakede Ka Nangula, Namibia

Dear Comrade Editor would you kindly give me space to little bit comment on the present burning issue of the so-called election dispute.

To me, there is nothing like election dispute in Namibia. All that we know about is smaller bogus political groups that were all thoroughly defeated by almighty SWAPO Party. Who actually, does not know that, it is a general trend in Africa that, if one political grouping is defeated, they would come up with stories that, the elections were rigged by the party that had defeated them. Therefore, what is happening in Namibia is not something new to us. The Government of Namibia in conformity with the SADC Protocol, allowed Foreign observers to come to Namibia in order to see for themselves how elections were going to be conducted in Namibia. After the elections, before they left for home, both groups the SADC and that of European Union, held Press Conferences, where

they expressed their satisfaction, the way how election were run in Namibia. It is therefore ridiculous to see opposition groups coming up with a pack of lies and fabricated insinuation that elections in Namibia were neither free or fair, therefore, deliberately contradicting statements of both SADC and European Union, who have declared the November Election that, they were organised in a spirit of true democracy.

As a citizen of this country, we as party (SWAPO) and its government, have become victims of our own laws. The nine oppositions went to the courts, using some clauses envisaged in the electoral commission of Namibia Act. I am therefore calling on the honourable Prime Minister to call on the Constitutional Committee to meet as early as possible this year, to review not only the electoral commission Act, but also the country’s constitution as well. Because there are some dangerous loopholes that are now being used by opposition as their political weapon against the SWAPO Party and its government.

Coming back to the claims by the opposition that, they uncovered so-called irregularities, I would say that not even Satan, who was said to be the father of deception and lies would ever try to mislead the Namibian People with such cheap political tactics and of course dangerous manoeuvres.

By Kakede Ka Nangula
If President Pohamba’s rally is attended by 15,000 people and that of Shixuameni was attended by 50 people; why one should doubt the fact that, the election were won by Pohamba with an overwhelming majority?