The Christian Democratic Voice party has condemned remarks made by Inspector General of the Namibian Police Force, Sebastian Ndeitunga, when he blamed churches for the police’s poor performance, particularly in the northern regions.
A media statement issued on Thursday by the party’s vice president, Nicodemus Shaama, said the party rejects and condemns in the highest faith the intentions and “fallacious” remarks of Ndeitunga, adding it will go to any legal means necessary to assist churches unlawfully and wrongfully persecuted by the country’s safety and security apparatus.
This comes after Ndeitunga recently sent Chief Inspector Christina Van-Dunem Da Fonsech Shikongo to the northern regions to clamp down on churches he termed as “fake and demon possessed”, causing havoc to members of the public, including some police officers.
Ndeitunga said there is poor work ethics in the police whereby some police officers are absent from work while busy at churches and some have become pastors. Dockets are missing, some police vehicles are dirty and some are missing. He also alleged some police officers are accusing others of witchcraft and it has caused division among them.
Shaama is disputing Ndeitunga’ claims, saying that police poor work ethics have nothing to do with any church at all and it should not be blamed on anyone, whereas people including police officers go to church not by force but by free will.
“We fail to understand on what premise the Inspector General identified these demons in those churches, and if he can call them by name and not generalise as not all churches are the same. If he cannot then he must withdraw his fallacious remarks and stick to safety and security, and entrust spiritual matters and matters of casting out demons to the churches as enshrined in the Namibian Constitution,” said Shaama.
He added that the party does not underestimate the ongoing woes caused by false prophets and misguided entrepreneurs using a church set-up to make money out of people, and cautioned Namibians from attending the “money-making arenas called churches”.
“No true church shall be a victim of police abuse of power because of the actions of these false prophets and religious entrepreneurs, and no true church will be closed down because of police persecution,” stated Shaama.
Source: The Namibian press Agency
