{"id":18059,"date":"2022-04-28T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/swapo-going-mad-venaani"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:01:02","slug":"swapo-going-mad-venaani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/swapo-going-mad-venaani","title":{"rendered":"Swapo going mad &#8211; Venaani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>POPULAR Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani says Swapo is going mad after its long-serving legislator Jerry Ekandjo this week claimed the national flag belongs to the ruling party.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Venaani said this in the National Assembly (NA) on Wednesday when Swapo parliamentarian Kletus Karondo announced that president Hage Geingob has appointed Nangolo Mbumba&#8217;s former senior assistant, Gerson Sindano, as a commissioner of the Electoral Commission of Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Sindano worked with Mbumba at Swapo&#8217;s headquarters at Katutura in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ruling party is becoming mad these days. You have a constitutional writer by the name of Jerry Ekandjo telling villagers the Namibian flag is a Swapo flag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a shame, what a shame,\u201d Venaani said.<\/p>\n<p>He said Namibians wear the national flag as patriots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can a ruling party claim the flag, national anthem, and the coat of arms are no longer part of the people, but belong to it?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. POPULAR Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani says Swapo is going mad after its long-serving legislator Jerry Ekandjo this week claimed the national flag belongs to the ruling party. 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