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Sources close to the high office of the government warned that the next conference on earth will be darkened by a military presence intended to send a direct message that soldiers will be deployed against those who wish to claim for ancestral land issues.
This was revealed by the front-line freeman of the Landless Movement (LPM) Bernadus Swartbooi at a press briefing yesterday in the capital.
Swartbooi, who stated that he had received a draft program of the Congress, affirmed his claims by stating that General Martin Shali had been carefully deployed to be part of the proceedings.
"Let it be known that we are not afraid of the military.No military is harder than the power of people!"
However, speaking to The Villager, the Relocation Department public relations officer, Chrispin Matongela, said that General Shali had been invited on the basis of his presidency of the Veterans Association.
The former deputy minister dismissed the agrarian reform also revealed that the conference is a simple Swapo election gimmick intended to be used by President Hage Geingob as a "key success story for 2019".
Swartbooi, known for his relentless attack on the ruling political establishment since leaving the party and government, said his LPM was not officially invited or consulted at the conference.
Expressing himself on the question of whether he would ask the government to be included or to attend preliminary regional meetings, he stated that he was not going to be able to attend. was not necessary to send observers to the regions.
Consultations in the regions should start week, the Ministry of Lands confirmed.
"Our view is that people should not attend the conference," he said, adding that if funding was available, the LPM would have opted for an alternative convention including the Union. European Union and the United Nations.
Matongela said that it was difficult to invite LPM because there is always confusion as to whether they are a political party or a pressure group.
LPM deputy leader Henny Seibeb told a newspaper that they would be registered as a political party in late February, but a representative of the Namibian Electoral Commission confirmed that they are only not yet registered as such.
Moreover, Swartbooi revealed that, on the basis of the provisional program of the conference, Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila would chair it with the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwa and the Minister of Lands Utoni Nujoma co-chair.
Matongela could not confirm this, however.
According to Swartbooi, "the attempt is to limit the role and contribution of Nujoma, an epic failure in the land issue."
"They all recognize that Utoni's failure can not bring much credible contribution, but since he is Sam's son, he is guarded." The conference is filled with ministers and we are told that the tactics are to intimidate and threaten the participants before and during the session, and to exercise maximum control over the contribution of certain geographic and geographical areas of the country. "[19659002] Groups have also been carefully selected to include Swapo sympathizers like Sandy Tjaronda from Nangof and Uhuru Dempers.
On the day of the conference, speaking time will be limited for certain groups while visits are made to some traditional authorities "to pull the line of the regime on earth," added Swartbooi.
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