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MEDIA RELEASE: Launch of Integrity Namibia

15 Feb 2022

We have also sought to focus on the roles that can be played by key bodies and sectors such as the media, the courts, the auditor-general, civil society, and the private sector. [...] We would like to use this occasion to call on government, as a demonstration of its political will, to explicitly include the costs of setting up a whistleblower protection office in the 2022/23 budget due to be tabled in the coming days. [...] Adding to the frustrations is the fact that a number of high-profile corruption cases have either not yet resulted in arrests or are the subject of drawn-out court procedures. [...] Such cases include the Fishrot investigation, the collapse of the SME Bank, the Kora Awards missing millions, the payments to UK- based lawyers, the August 26 scandal, and corruption in the government medical aid scheme, among others. [...] We need the private sector to stand up, we need lawyers to stand up, we need the churches to stand up, we need civil society to stand up, we need traditional authorities to stand up, we need academia to stand up.

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