People of Namibia 🇳🇦
The FULL JUDGMENT of the FIRST APPLICATION of Job Shipululo Amupanda v Speaker of the National Assembly and 19 others has now been RELEASED. We JUST Realized that it was actually not Dismissed on Urgency as we THOUGHT, the Judge Just DECLINED TO GRANT an Interdict at this STAGE - Kind of those the LONG ARM of the Law will Catch the Criminal, even if it’s later. It confirms this Perspective we always had as Activists - There is WINNING is LOSING and also LOSING in WINNING. The JUDGMENT make three (3) Things Clear: (1) Recruitment of ECN Commissioners must be Transparent and Comply with the Constitution; (2) I can Challenge the Outcome if they Bulldoze it through without records; (3) he doesn’t agree with the Speaker’s technical and bureaucratic arguments of where the records are and who has custody. In Paragraph 25, the Judge makes this observation about the SECOND APPLICATION which we have since FILED: in summary and to paraphrase the judge is saying “It would be deeply unsatisfactory if, in future proceedings, the resolution of these constitutional questions – which concern transparency, accountability, and the right of Members of Parliament to access information necessary for the discharge of their duties – were to be defeated by a mere technical argument about who physically holds the documents or who is the 'custodian'. They CAN BULLDOZE their things but the Court SIGNAL is CLEAR - their Decision will be SET ASIDE. Here are SOME necessary parts of the Judgement which has been shared on our pages! We won’t retreat!