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"Namibia made the right decision by establishing its Defence Force at independence and it should be proud of its Defence Force rather than regret its existence."
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Lempy LucasI was amazed when Hon Moongo made unfounded claims that "a Himba perso — Lempy Lucas
"I was amazed when Hon Moongo made unfounded claims that "a Himba person" has been a Private (an ordinary soldier) in the NDF since 1990. These claims are not just aimed at criticising the Defence Budget, but are also tribalistic in nature. In the NDF, soldiers are not identified as "Himba person" or the other person. The NDF is a professional and apolitical institution whose mandate as per Chapter 15; Article 118 of the Namibian Constitution is to defend the territory and national interests of Namibia. NDF members have numbers and names for identification and if the Hon Member wants to prove his statement, he should have come up with the name and number of the NDF member in question, either here in Parliament or to the Ministry of Defence so that such a case could have been investigated as to why a member has remained in the same rank for 21 years."
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Lempy Lucas, also: Lukas, is a Namibian politician. A member of the National Assembly from 2000 until 2015, Lucas is a member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). She has held a number of deputy minister positions in Namibia's government between 2004 and 2015. She also was a SWAPO Party Youth League activist.
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"Development and stability are two sides of the same spectrum. The one cannot take place without the other."
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"The national budget is an important matter and as members of this August House, we ought to discuss it in that spirit, but it appears that some members of the House and the public take this debate lightly by trying to score political points out of it and opportunistically criticising this Vote or that Vote."
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"I would like to inform this August House and the public that we are building a representative Defence Force in terms of demographics of the Namibian society. Members of the Defence Force are posted and promoted based on merit regardless of their"
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"How would Namibia have survived the security threats that faced it in the 1990s if it had no Defence Force? Who was going to defend it? Defence forces from other countries? Because if we cannot defend ourselves, we either forget about independence or we have to calion someone else to defend our country."
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"Some members of the public appear to be ill informed or are deliberately taking advantage of the national budget debate to"
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