Namibian intelligence and tax payers' money
THE TRUTH WRITES:
Who is the Namibian Central Intelligence Agency (NCIS)?
The NCIS is Namibian government's intelligence agency responsible for national security and reporting directly to the president.
Government's apparatus consists of ministries, agencies and offices and the NCIS resorts under agencies, receives an annual budget from central government and is therefor an entity of government and not a private institution. Its political representative is a director general with a seat in parliament and it is run by a director who is the accounting officer. The director is equal to a permanent secretary in the public service.
By receiving an annual budget from central government, the intelligence establishment is supposed to open its books also to the auditor general like any other government establishment but this was never done for 28 years. Although they have a financial manager and probably internal auditors, their financial matters were closed for any external auditing.
The bomb however exploded recently in the media about the alleged illegal purchases of fixed properties and farms, costing most probably far over N$200 million of tax payers' money. The big question is, does the president know about these deals and if he does, this means he actually approved these illegal dealings and he will have to be kept accountable for this wasting of tax payer's money.
If he does not know about these dealings, then the director general and his director and all role-players who dealt in these dealings should be investigated for corruption, suspended and charged in a court of law. At the same time a forensic audit should take place to investigate all illegal dealings with tax payers' money.
The excuse that certain farms were bought for resettlement purposes is nonsense. That is not the role of the NCIS. Maybe those properties were bought to host retired members to increase their pension benefits.
The NCIS created their own act to suit themselves and to bypass government laws, allowing them to make and break as it pleases their top management.
The NCIS should explain to the general public about their illegal dealings with public funds. Apart from properties mentioned in the court case there are many other properties and maybe even more about which little is known.
The other question is, how does the financial manager provide his budget to the president's office annually? Are these budgets were artificially inflated to cater for these illegal dealings in fixed properties and farms and who is to benefit from these properties?
National security and its operations should also be aimed against money laundering and white collar crimes in the interest of the state. Are these dealings not probably also classified as money laundering and crimes against the state? How does the NCIS classify these dealings and the wasting of public funds?
The fact is, the worms in the can have been spilled and all these dealings are of great concerns to every Namibian citizen. Freedom of speech and a free media have succeeded in the interest of every Namibian. However, much trust has been lost in Namibia's intelligence agency and its role in national security.
Even more trust will be lost in a government which aim is to serve its people according to the Namibian constitution. The damage caused by the NCIS is irreparable and will cause tremendous harm of Namibia's image locally, in Africa and the international world.
Who can trust whom in Namibia?
Who is the Namibian Central Intelligence Agency (NCIS)?
The NCIS is Namibian government's intelligence agency responsible for national security and reporting directly to the president.
Government's apparatus consists of ministries, agencies and offices and the NCIS resorts under agencies, receives an annual budget from central government and is therefor an entity of government and not a private institution. Its political representative is a director general with a seat in parliament and it is run by a director who is the accounting officer. The director is equal to a permanent secretary in the public service.
By receiving an annual budget from central government, the intelligence establishment is supposed to open its books also to the auditor general like any other government establishment but this was never done for 28 years. Although they have a financial manager and probably internal auditors, their financial matters were closed for any external auditing.
The bomb however exploded recently in the media about the alleged illegal purchases of fixed properties and farms, costing most probably far over N$200 million of tax payers' money. The big question is, does the president know about these deals and if he does, this means he actually approved these illegal dealings and he will have to be kept accountable for this wasting of tax payer's money.
If he does not know about these dealings, then the director general and his director and all role-players who dealt in these dealings should be investigated for corruption, suspended and charged in a court of law. At the same time a forensic audit should take place to investigate all illegal dealings with tax payers' money.
The excuse that certain farms were bought for resettlement purposes is nonsense. That is not the role of the NCIS. Maybe those properties were bought to host retired members to increase their pension benefits.
The NCIS created their own act to suit themselves and to bypass government laws, allowing them to make and break as it pleases their top management.
The NCIS should explain to the general public about their illegal dealings with public funds. Apart from properties mentioned in the court case there are many other properties and maybe even more about which little is known.
The other question is, how does the financial manager provide his budget to the president's office annually? Are these budgets were artificially inflated to cater for these illegal dealings in fixed properties and farms and who is to benefit from these properties?
National security and its operations should also be aimed against money laundering and white collar crimes in the interest of the state. Are these dealings not probably also classified as money laundering and crimes against the state? How does the NCIS classify these dealings and the wasting of public funds?
The fact is, the worms in the can have been spilled and all these dealings are of great concerns to every Namibian citizen. Freedom of speech and a free media have succeeded in the interest of every Namibian. However, much trust has been lost in Namibia's intelligence agency and its role in national security.
Even more trust will be lost in a government which aim is to serve its people according to the Namibian constitution. The damage caused by the NCIS is irreparable and will cause tremendous harm of Namibia's image locally, in Africa and the international world.
Who can trust whom in Namibia?
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