EDITORIAL
President Hage Geingob’s press secretary Alfredo Hengari continues to create animosity between the country’s highest office and various stakeholders.
Just this week, Hengari tore into the Zambezi Lives Matter movement - whose agenda, whether justified or not, is so far outside the realm of his work - before turning his fury to the media for reporting about the remarks he made himself in a press release.
In the case of Namibian Sun, for example, Hengari failed to point to any factual incorrectness in the article in which the Zambezi Lives Matter movement responded to his attack, but instead tore into the editors for placing the story on the front page.
Hengari, gloating in his bloated sense of self-importance, thinks he is so powerful that he can even tell newspapers where to place news items. He is, in fact, currently presiding over the ugliest period of relations between the press and State House.
Control freak that he is, Hengari thinks he can attack the Zambezi movement in his official press statement, but then expects that the movement should not be accorded column inches in newspapers when it responds. This is a sign of a man who recklessly starts fires and struggles to put them out, burning his hands in the process instead.
Unfortunately, this fire is not only scorching Hengari’s controlling fingers - the entire presidency is often caught up in the flames of his negligent pronouncements.
Just this week, Hengari tore into the Zambezi Lives Matter movement - whose agenda, whether justified or not, is so far outside the realm of his work - before turning his fury to the media for reporting about the remarks he made himself in a press release.
In the case of Namibian Sun, for example, Hengari failed to point to any factual incorrectness in the article in which the Zambezi Lives Matter movement responded to his attack, but instead tore into the editors for placing the story on the front page.
Hengari, gloating in his bloated sense of self-importance, thinks he is so powerful that he can even tell newspapers where to place news items. He is, in fact, currently presiding over the ugliest period of relations between the press and State House.
Control freak that he is, Hengari thinks he can attack the Zambezi movement in his official press statement, but then expects that the movement should not be accorded column inches in newspapers when it responds. This is a sign of a man who recklessly starts fires and struggles to put them out, burning his hands in the process instead.
Unfortunately, this fire is not only scorching Hengari’s controlling fingers - the entire presidency is often caught up in the flames of his negligent pronouncements.
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