EDITORIAL: Behind enemy lines
Proving to be a colossal intelligence failure, almost like how Israel was caught asleep at the wheel by Hamas over the weekend, Namibians must be worried about the dealings in a house raided by police in Auasblick last week.
How a syndicate like that took root in our country, where firearms and drugs were uncovered, we too were infiltrated. Just not at Israel’s scale.
Ours might not be a bloody war punctuated by abductions and streets littered with dead bodies, but there are serious security questions to be answered. Especially when this cartel is seemingly operated by foreign nationals. What if there are deep-rooted fatal intents beneath the cryptocurrency trading story sold to us so far?
Worse yet, this was happening a stone’s throw away from State House, where our head of state lives.
While the raid is welcome news, it came belatedly and so much harm had already occurred – leaving serious questions about potential lapses in our state security architecture.
The fact that nearly 100 young people in our country were recruited to advance this scam leaves even more heads being scratched.
During his State of the Nation Address in March, President Hage Geingob startlingly stated that hordes of frustrated unemployed youth may turn to 'terrorism' for survival. With the raid in Auasblick, it seems his prophesy has come to pass.
These are terrifying times for our country. And it would be foolhardy of us to see this incident through the simplified lens of virtual asset trading only.
How a syndicate like that took root in our country, where firearms and drugs were uncovered, we too were infiltrated. Just not at Israel’s scale.
Ours might not be a bloody war punctuated by abductions and streets littered with dead bodies, but there are serious security questions to be answered. Especially when this cartel is seemingly operated by foreign nationals. What if there are deep-rooted fatal intents beneath the cryptocurrency trading story sold to us so far?
Worse yet, this was happening a stone’s throw away from State House, where our head of state lives.
While the raid is welcome news, it came belatedly and so much harm had already occurred – leaving serious questions about potential lapses in our state security architecture.
The fact that nearly 100 young people in our country were recruited to advance this scam leaves even more heads being scratched.
During his State of the Nation Address in March, President Hage Geingob startlingly stated that hordes of frustrated unemployed youth may turn to 'terrorism' for survival. With the raid in Auasblick, it seems his prophesy has come to pass.
These are terrifying times for our country. And it would be foolhardy of us to see this incident through the simplified lens of virtual asset trading only.
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