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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Cabinet secretary George Simataa maintains that academic and erstwhile Namibia Institute of Public Management executive director left the institute on mutual grounds, and was not pushed, as purported.<\/p>\n

Simataa made these remarks during an interview with this reporter, while responding to a topic that has seemingly refused to die in the public space.<\/p>\n

The interview took place in Simataa\u2019s first floor office in the Office of the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

It was the same office where he and Diescho agreed on mutual grounds that the outspoken academic part ways with Nipam, Simataa recalls.<\/p>\n

\u201cProfessor Diescho is a closed case. There on that sofa [pointing], we didn\u2019t just want to talk. Professor Diescho knows that I was a very kind man. To say he was fired unnecessarily is not true. He was not fired. Professor Diescho and us at Nipam separated on mutual understanding. I know professor Diescho,\u201d Simataa said. Simataa and Diescho first crossed paths in 1984 at St Joseph RC High School (Dobra) outside Windhoek as activists of the then militant Namibia National Students Organisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I am not one of the people that would want to fight a long-standing friend. As a friend, I called him in my office here. I said, \u2018there are these allegations about you and audits that come from PwC. These things are damning for you. You are the only educated man we have in this country. If we charge you with misconduct, you\u2019ll be in trouble and it\u2019s going to drag your name down. We can offer an opportunity to separate\u2019,\u201d Simataa narrated.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI have never spoken about these things. But since you\u2019re asking and it could be a good space now, I\u2019ve said so. And he said, \u2018Oh George, you\u2019re saying the truth. Let me go and think about it\u2019. I said, I give you one hour. But here is a letter, before this time tomorrow, call me back.\u201d \u201cHe called me back and said, \u2018I\u2019ve accepted the separation and I\u2019ll produce it in writing.\u2019 The email is here. When there was noise at that time, I sent the emails to the newspapers to read which was sent by him. So, we separated with Diescho. We did not fire Diescho. But he went to court. And always, in all these situations, we won the cases as Nipam,\u201d Simataa went at length explaining.<\/p>\n

Opposing Simataa\u2019s narrative, the German-based scholar maintained that he was unfairly dismissed and that there was no board meeting or resolution to effect his dismissal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will try to find the only document that is in existence that he [Simataa] gave me [on a] Monday morning without any discussion prior to that, that my performance was under question,\u201d Diescho said.<\/p>\n

He went further to suggest that he has since been on an employment embargo in his motherland, following his fallout with the late president Hage Geingob, who allegedly declared him persona non grata. When delivering the letter, Simataa, according to Diescho, said to him: \u201cThe president [Geingob] came back over the weekend, and we worked throughout the weekend. This is the result.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Diescho, Simataa\u2019s missive suggested no room for negotiation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was asking me to resign with immediate effect. That\u2019s not an agreement. There were no charges put to me. There was no disciplinary procedure. As a matter of fact, there was no board meeting to discuss my resignation that he was referring to. There was no such,\u201d Diescho recalls. According to him, the last board meeting he attended was on 2 December 2015. There, neither his performance nor resignation were on the agenda, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirdly, this matter came up in Rundu during the town hall meetings in preparation for the 2019 election campaign. The president was asked by two people in that meeting; Paulus Mbangu and Marcellus Haivera, who asked, \u2018What is it that Joseph Diescho has done to get the anger of the government that he is being treated like this when criminals and thieves roam the streets freely?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

On the day, Geingob retorted in the livestreamed meeting that: \u201cThat [Diescho] is the person I brought back from the wilderness because I was told he did not have a house here [in Kavango]. He cares for Kavango, and I am told he doesn\u2019t have a house, he stays in the Catholic Church (premises) or something. If you are so committed and worried about your people, why don\u2019t you have a house… After he came here, I do not know \u2013 he thinks I am following him. Listen, I do not have time. I have more important things to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s statement, at least from Diescho\u2019s perspective, meant that he was blacklisted by the State.<\/p>\n

It is this situation that forced him into self-imposed exile. According to Diescho, the greatest sins he committed while at Nipam were not owning a house in his region of birth and failing to pay municipal bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our laws, those are not dismissible offences,\u201d he said with a grin.<\/p>\n

Asked if he reconciled with Geingob before the latter\u2019s demise, Diescho said he engaged several senior government officials to mediate whatever differences that existed between them.<\/p>\n

Those efforts hit a cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of them informed me that it was a personal decision that the president took.\u201d<\/p>\n

In essence, the two never got to smoke the peace pipe. On whether he will return to Namibia, he said: \u201cMy dismissal led to a general embargo. You, when the head of State mentions a person by name [singles out], people become afraid. So, I lost all my friends. All my speaking engagements were cancelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not find a lawyer to represent me at the labour commissioner. Only [Panduleni] Itula went with me. Do you see how difficult it is? All the lawyers cancelled on me; they were afraid.\u201d For Diescho, returning home is a nightmare and a mirage, as he cannot secure employment in the public or the private sector, and has already seen some of his interviews cancelled at the 11th hour.<\/p>\n

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