NNN picks booze fest over genocide event
The president attended the following events in May:Today: Etunda irrigation scheme – Omusati27 May: Omaludi Agricultural Festival – Ohangwena23 May: Omagongo Festival – Omusati4 May: Cassinga Day – Omusati1 May: Workers’ Day – Kunene President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s absence from yesterday’s national Genocide Remembrance Day events has drawn sharp criticism from political and community leaders despite […] The post NNN picks booze fest over genocide event appeared first on The Namibian .
The president attended the following events in May: Today: Etunda irrigation scheme – Omusati 27 May: Omaludi Agricultural Festival – Ohangwena 23 May: Omagongo Festival – Omusati 4 May: Cassinga Day – Omusati 1 May: Workers’ Day – Kunene President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s absence from yesterday’s national Genocide Remembrance Day events has drawn sharp criticism from political and community leaders despite her active public schedule. The main event yesterday took place at Shark Island in the ||Kharas region, a site historically known as ‘Death Island’, where thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people were imprisoned and died during German colonial rule between 1884 and 1915. Additional remembrance events were held in the Khomas, Kavango East, Ohangwena, Oshana, Oshikoto and Omusati regions.
Events in the Ohangwena region were attended by vice president Lucia Witbooi on behalf of the government. Nandi-Ndaitwah’s absence drew criticism from several political and community leaders. On Wednesday, the president attended the Omaludi Agricultural Festival at her hometown of Okongo in the Ohangwena region.
Today, she is expected to visit the Etunda irrigation scheme. Last Saturday, the president officiated the Omagongo (traditonal wine) Festival in the Omusati region and attended a Cassinga Day event in the same region earlier this month. She also attended a Workers’ Day event at Opuwo in the Kunene region.