EDITORIAL: Our wasteful custodians

“When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.” So we’re taught in Proverbs 29:2.When our national resources are handled in a sloppy, reckless or negligent manner – like blowing N$1 billion of the government medical aid scheme on ghost members as reported in The Namibian last week – that’s wicked governance of national resources. It’s like the custodians of these resources take their inspiration from Nebuchadnezzar, the emperor of Babylon, whom the Jews called the ‘destroyer of nations’.If disobedience is rebellion against God, then this industrial-scale thievery of our resources is war against our own people. But, as has become our daily bread, it’s unlikely anyone will be held accountable. Yet this is three times bigger than Fishrot.We are in a battle against the forces of darkness, commandeered by those who burn the midnight oil plotting how to eat the national cake alone. And it’s during darkness that Satan strikes and dangles the juicy carrot in the faces of our unprincipled governors.Iron sharpens iron, they say. But this is like scratching each other’s backs for parochial ends, rather than tapping into each other’s strength to better our country. In the Christian nation that we are, though sold as a secular state, accountability means confessing our sins to each other. A commission of inquiry into the Public Service Medical Aid Scheme (Psemas) is the most natural thing to do right now.

EDITORIAL: Our wasteful custodians

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Namibian Sun 2025-05-06

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EDITORIAL: Our wasteful custodians

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