By Daily Revelation Reporter
Our forward path will be safe if we relentlessly refer to our independence heroes for guidance, especially now when hypocrisy among some of our leaders is reigning supreme, says former president Edgar Lungu.
In a statement of condolences on the passing of Dr. Hage Geingob, the President of Namibia, president Lungu stated that his death was a big blow to Namibia in particular and the SADC region in general.
He stated that news about the demise of President Geingob yesterday morning left his heart wrenched.
“I was privileged to share a brotherly relationship with President Geingob, 82, from the time when both of us were given the grace to become Heads of State in our respective countries in the year 2015,” stated president Lungu.
“We have no answer when death comes. All our strengths and hopes as we journey on mother earth lie in the faith of our Lord, the God Almighty.”
Lungu however said, the passing on of President Geingob was hard to take.
He observed that the region and Africa as a whole was sadly losing icons, the staunch, revolutionary and legendary Pan Africanists, at a time they were needed most to tap into their wisdom, knowledge and experience.
He stated that the late president would always be remembered as a liberation struggle icon of Namibia who dedicated his life to help his country gain independence in 1990.
The former president stated that President Geigbob was one of the last, if not the very last, of freedom fighters remaining, who was able to meaningfully infuse into the new generation of African leaders, the true spirit of Pan-Africanism from the liberation struggle against colonialism, against neo-colonialism, right up to the ongoing anti-imperialist struggle, which many African nations don’t fully comprehend.
“As we mourn President Geingob, let us find ways to preserve and inculcate the patriotic values of these great sons of Africa in Dr Kenneth Kaunda, Nelson Mandela, Robert Mugabe, Oliver Tambo and Julius Nyerere, among others,” he stated. “In the ever complex world we live in today, our forward path will be safe if we relentlessly refer to our independence heroes for guidance, especially now when hypocrisy among some of our leaders is reigning supreme. The spirit of Pan Africanism is either being sacrificed or traded at the altar of expediency and personal interests.”
President Lungu said Africa needed to look inward, to the virtues of Pan Africanism saying this is where the renaissance lies.
‘This is the legacy President Geingob has left for all well-meaning current and future African leaders to emulate and to, in turn, leave for posterity,” president Lungu said.
