APP youth want Hage to resign
The All People's Party Youth League (APPYL) has joined the chorus of those who have condemned President Hage Geingob's remarks about how the Kavangos voted during the 1989 elections.
The APPYL has also called on the president to resign.
Youth league president Sebastian Ntjamba said Geingob's utterances during last week's town hall meeting at Khorixas answered the ultimate question about why the two Kavango regions remain poor and underdeveloped, and why Kavangos remain under-represented in top government positions. Geingob was quoted as saying: “We googled; we like to do research and just to look at the first elections, the results for the Kavango, who claim they voted for Swapo, it's not true, it was terrible. We lost Kavango basically, terribly,” Geingob reportedly said. However, the election results in Kavango showed that 27 256 people had voted for Swapo, while 22 046 had cast their ballots for the then DTA in 1989.
Ntjamba argued the Kavango regions have been neglected intentionally because of what transpired in 1989.
“That confession from the head of state speaks volumes; it has answered all our doubts as to why Kavango has been the poorest region in Namibia since 1990,” Ntjamba said. “The region (which has since been divided into east and west) has been and is still top in all the negative issues, such as poverty, teenage pregnancies and the high unemployment rate.
“All our research to curb all these problems have been a waste of resources and time for it addressed the symptom, but not the cause; the cause is a deep hate from the Swapo leadership… the current head of state, who spilled their secret conspiracy against fellow Namibians to subject them to oppression, because of the hallucination and baseless allegation of the 1989 vote.”
Ntjamba said Geingob should resign from his position, based on the remarks he made.
“It is against this background upon which we call on the head of state to do an honourable thing to resign as the president of the Republic of Namibia.”
The APPYL's statement follows similar statements by the Kavango-based pressure group known as the Muzokumwe Volunteers Organisation (MVO) and the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), which is the rebranded DTA.
The APPYL has also called on the president to resign.
Youth league president Sebastian Ntjamba said Geingob's utterances during last week's town hall meeting at Khorixas answered the ultimate question about why the two Kavango regions remain poor and underdeveloped, and why Kavangos remain under-represented in top government positions. Geingob was quoted as saying: “We googled; we like to do research and just to look at the first elections, the results for the Kavango, who claim they voted for Swapo, it's not true, it was terrible. We lost Kavango basically, terribly,” Geingob reportedly said. However, the election results in Kavango showed that 27 256 people had voted for Swapo, while 22 046 had cast their ballots for the then DTA in 1989.
Ntjamba argued the Kavango regions have been neglected intentionally because of what transpired in 1989.
“That confession from the head of state speaks volumes; it has answered all our doubts as to why Kavango has been the poorest region in Namibia since 1990,” Ntjamba said. “The region (which has since been divided into east and west) has been and is still top in all the negative issues, such as poverty, teenage pregnancies and the high unemployment rate.
“All our research to curb all these problems have been a waste of resources and time for it addressed the symptom, but not the cause; the cause is a deep hate from the Swapo leadership… the current head of state, who spilled their secret conspiracy against fellow Namibians to subject them to oppression, because of the hallucination and baseless allegation of the 1989 vote.”
Ntjamba said Geingob should resign from his position, based on the remarks he made.
“It is against this background upon which we call on the head of state to do an honourable thing to resign as the president of the Republic of Namibia.”
The APPYL's statement follows similar statements by the Kavango-based pressure group known as the Muzokumwe Volunteers Organisation (MVO) and the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), which is the rebranded DTA.
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