Kakede fries Hidipo
By Kakede Ka Nangula

Would you please allow me space in your newspaper in order to express my views and also to comment on the letter by Mr.Hidipo Hamutenya, which appeared in the Republikein newspaper of 2nd June 2010.

In the same newspaper, Mr. Hidipo Hamutenya, castigated the Namibian Head of State, by claiming that he failed to rule the country properly.

It is however a fact that Hidipo Hamutenya, before he became a renegade, he was Minister of Information and Broadcasting. After that position, he was given to run the ministry of Trade and Industry, then again the very Senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Apart from that, Hamutenya was a member of the Polit Bureau of the Central Committee of the SWAPO Party, member of Cabinet and also a member of the National Assembly. If there was something wrong he should have correct it.

The question also arises, if he is so clever and politically shrewd, why was he removed from the Ministry of foreign Affairs if he could do better than the incumbent Head of State?

Was the reason of his removal possibly not because he messed up? I should so, because if he was intelligent enough, President Nujoma would not have terminated his term of running the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

When he was Minister of Trade and Industry, some of the monies belonging to the Development Brigade Corporation (DBC) went missing, under Hidipo’s Jurisdiction. H.E President Nujoma ordered the setting up of Commission of Enquiry and Hidipo was summoned to answer to questions put to him as to what actually happened to the money?

When he could not give substantial answers, the Commission of Enquiry postponed the hearing, having discovered that nothing was coming out of Hamutenya. The whole enquiry was abandoned indefinitely.

Hidipo Hamutenya as a leader of RDP, was not suppose to boycott parliament if he was more clever than Pohamba.

In the first place, parliament is a National symbol and no sober minded person could ever play with it. If he was defeated during the last November election, and that he was not like Pohamba whom he is slandering as not governing the country properly, he would have accepted defeat like what former British Prime Minister Mr. Brown did.

When he realized that his Labour party had lost, he went to the Queen to hand in hi resignation.

He never bothered to go to the courts to seek nalification of election results.

Now the RDP members who were supposed to have joined others at parliament are suffering from hunger, shame on Hidipo. The Supreme Court on which Hidipo pinned his hope did absolutely nothing to get him out of that dangerous frustration.

People in Namibia love Pohamba, because he knows how to unite our people irrespective of their political affiliation or their colours of skin.