Land conference a sham - Amupanda
Job Amupanda of the Affirmative Repositioning Movement has reacted strongly against comments made by lands minister Utoni Nujoma on the eNCA news channel yesterday. Nujoma said that government will not give land to the poor. According to Amupanda, Nujoma also said " government particularly has a problem with giving land to the poor from informal settlements and government will only give land to the elite who will contribute to the 'GDP'."
He added that they take "note of the minister's announcement and confirmation that SWAPO compromised and sold out on the land question because they were, in Utoni Nujoma’s own words, 'tired of being in the bush'."
Amupanda continued by accusing government, and in particular the 'Harambee Cabinet' of being anti poor, reminding the nation of now vice-president Nangolo Mbumba's comments in 2014. Mbumba, he said, "displayed the same anti-poor attitude during our 2015 and 2016 land negotiations at State House in the presence of President Hage Geingob who did not call him to order. The anti-poor is a policy of the Harambee Cabinet.
"Utoni Nujoma is an elite with a farm, multiple fishing rights, properties and bank accounts in foreign countries. It should not be expected of him to love the poor. While making these declarations against the poor before an international investigative journalist Nkepile Mabuse, seated on his table are documents for the land conference. Regardless of the documents and much hype about the land conference, it is evident that Nujoma, Mbumba and Geingob already have predetermined outcomes of the land conference. The land conference, therefore, will be nothing but a sham meant to silence the poor who are hated by official government policy."
State House is yet to respond.
STAFF REPORTER
Job Amupanda of the Affirmative Repositioning Movement has reacted strongly against comments made by lands minister Utoni Nujoma on the eNCA news channel yesterday. Nujoma said that government will not give land to the poor. According to Amupanda, Nujoma also said " government particularly has a problem with giving land to the poor from informal settlements and government will only give land to the elite who will contribute to the 'GDP'."
He added that they take "note of the minister's announcement and confirmation that SWAPO compromised and sold out on the land question because they were, in Utoni Nujoma’s own words, 'tired of being in the bush'."
Amupanda continued by accusing government, and in particular the 'Harambee Cabinet' of being anti poor, reminding the nation of now vice-president Nangolo Mbumba's comments in 2014. Mbumba, he said, "displayed the same anti-poor attitude during our 2015 and 2016 land negotiations at State House in the presence of President Hage Geingob who did not call him to order. The anti-poor is a policy of the Harambee Cabinet.
"Utoni Nujoma is an elite with a farm, multiple fishing rights, properties and bank accounts in foreign countries. It should not be expected of him to love the poor. While making these declarations against the poor before an international investigative journalist Nkepile Mabuse, seated on his table are documents for the land conference. Regardless of the documents and much hype about the land conference, it is evident that Nujoma, Mbumba and Geingob already have predetermined outcomes of the land conference. The land conference, therefore, will be nothing but a sham meant to silence the poor who are hated by official government policy."
State House is yet to respond.
STAFF REPORTER