The Constitution Amendment Bill is to be tabled in the Namibian parliament today. We, the people of Namibia, do not want to be railroaded into this before the November elections. So we've started an online petition , as well as an email/fax petition to the Ombudsman.
Our petition to the Ombudsman will most likely not deliver any fruit, if we look back to his achievements with the police, but according to our Constitution he is our line to follow if we have a complaint against governing institutions. So we take that line of defense anyhow.
Online petitions only work if thousands of people sign it.
Below is an excerpt from a longer video about how the people of Nanaimo in Canada won their case against their city councilors. You can find the complete story HERE
Namibians, however, haven't yet gotten used to sharing news online with others. So this petition hasn't yet really taken off. By the time it does, the amendments will most probably have been implemented.
Thursday 7 August a demonstration is to take place in Windhoek, our capital city. Yet even that is approached with mixed feelings.
Our petition to the Ombudsman will most likely not deliver any fruit, if we look back to his achievements with the police, but according to our Constitution he is our line to follow if we have a complaint against governing institutions. So we take that line of defense anyhow.
Online petitions only work if thousands of people sign it.
Below is an excerpt from a longer video about how the people of Nanaimo in Canada won their case against their city councilors. You can find the complete story HERE
Namibians, however, haven't yet gotten used to sharing news online with others. So this petition hasn't yet really taken off. By the time it does, the amendments will most probably have been implemented.
Thursday 7 August a demonstration is to take place in Windhoek, our capital city. Yet even that is approached with mixed feelings.
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