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Box 81341, Olympia, Windhoek; Tel/Fax +264 61255973; Fax2 E-mail: 088615773 Email: rdpparty@)iway.na; Website: www.rdp.org.na Remarks Kuugongelwa Amadhila on the Budget Submission for 2013/2014 by Honorable Minister of Finance, Saara By Honorable Kandy Nehova 13th March 2013 Honorable Speaker, Honorable Members of August House, this on to make the few Allow me budget comments before us.
As a nation we are faced with three major socio- namely economic problems, and poverty, unemployment 1 • glaring distribution of our wealth.

inequality in the We have been talking about since problems these independence and even before we independence, when this nation many promised including good of equality, housing employment, and quality free education and health for all.
provision better things, 2 I The mothers and fathers of our Constitution, cognizant of the imbalances created by the brutal and divisive Apartheid under established regime, the Article Constitution, the National Planning Commission in order economic the to development of this country.

plan 129 of I am sure most of us in this Chamber the details.

aware of are 3 how under Constitution, The Article 98, further directs as economic the to Namibia development should be organized.
Again I believe that most of us are fully aware of the details.

of Honorable Speaker, Honorable Members, Right from the start we knew that the private sector will not public or finance build infrastructures such as roads, schools, hospitals, defense and 4 installations, water power public and security installations, installations administration infrastructures.
for this We also knew that country to advance to the level where it would be considered a developed nation, we needed to invest heavily in capacity building aimed at empowering our young people with the necessary skills to enable the the nation to exploiting all 5 materials resources richly is this that natural country endowed with.
By exploiting, we did not mean to extract and send other raw to and in so doing, countries that go with exporting jobs value in activities addition those countries, but we meant to extract and add value to all before our semi-finished to exporting while products finished retaining jobs and skills on our soil.

resources 6 As we sit in this August House failed this today, we have nation because we have failed Either we did not to plan.
and role understand the National function Planning Commission or we the wrong people in have put national important that institution or both.
the of Honorable Speaker, to I What emphasize today, and I have done so before, am trying 7 realize this country cannot, is that and will its not, development potential unless it has formulated a and until national comprehensive development master plan or • program comprising: • of quantities a) Types, quality infrastructures installations, maintenance thereof and b) Types and public and including quantities industries of 8 to be standards c) Quality developed and maintained and quality d) Quantity human needed country and e) Quantity of material financial resources needed to accomplish the above resources to / develop of skills our f) In addition the master plan and should benchmark national projects prioritize Only when we have set up a development comprehensive 9 government, master plan that we can assist the private businesses and other local and development international and the indeed, partners, citizens to make individual decisions to both informed short-term long-term and development objectives for the families, of welfare the nation and communities, Africa at large.
10 the organization Honorable Speaker By involving all stakeholders and in participation in the economic be development, a fostering self- sense confidence and dignity in our people.

patriotism and ownership, we will of Honorable Speaker, I insist that as long as we fail to embrace the principle of planning in the real sense as meant in the Supreme Law of 11 our country, the Constitution, we will go nowhere.
despite the semantics, the terms and beautiful slogans used in this and the previous budget discussions.

rhetoric, the the scattered All and disjointed plans or any other crisis-taming knee-jerk, how intervention are much financial take us poured nowhere.
into it, will no matter resources 12 20 now, To emphasize my point, we have been pumping billions into our national budgets for but, years over apparently; we are not yet in a manufacture position for beddings in public hospitals, patients leave alone manufacturing basic drugs for our patients.

to and uniforms • that May I also add the fact • our ZInc, Iron ore, copper, silver, gold, diamonds, lead, fish and livestock uranium, 13 still are largely, raw form?
being if not exclusively, exported in Indeed they are, and this is that we are despite our in making economic development.

progress claims Honorable Speaker, Honorable Members, I conclude by reminding this again, August House, once that no industrialization, no economic expansion, no job 14 no poverty creation, let alone poverty alleviation, eradication will be achieved comprehensive without economic development master plan.
a I would therefore like to urge all of us in this August House the National to demand that Planning Commission produce this requisite development tool to allow this and finally move forward?

country 15 By the way, secure permanent.

jobs can only be created in small, medium and large-scale in enterprises temporary activities like bush by clearing TIPEEG.
purported and not as Finally, I also wish to remind this this August House that the necessary nation has all is brains is missing required, but what accountability honesty, are to do all what 16 and political will ruling elites.

from the My remarks notwithstanding, congratulate to wish I Saara Honorable for Kuugongelwa Amadhila preparing this budget on time.

I rest my case for now.

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