{"id":238207,"date":"2019-01-30T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T07:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=238207"},"modified":"2019-01-30T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T07:09:07","slug":"more-police-visibility-in-informal-settlements-geingob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=238207","title":{"rendered":"More police visibility in informal settlements &#8211; Geingob"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_238220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 960px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/More-police-visibility-in-informal-settlements-Geingob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238220\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/More-police-visibility-in-informal-settlements-Geingob.jpg\" alt=\"More police visibility in informal settlements - Geingob\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/More-police-visibility-in-informal-settlements-Geingob.jpg 960w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/More-police-visibility-in-informal-settlements-Geingob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/More-police-visibility-in-informal-settlements-Geingob-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured: President Hage Geingob addressing high level government stakeholders in housing. Photos: Zorena Jantze.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Zorena Jantze<\/p>\n<p>PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has warned that individuals pushing a political agenda by preventing the police from doing their work of demolishing shacks will not be tolerated.<br \/>\nIn fact, the president is of the opinion that police officers should rather be deployed regularly to these settlements as a preventative measure in the erecting of illegal structures.<br \/>\nGeingob today met with various City of Windhoek Councillors, the Khomas Regional Governor, Windhoek Mayor, the Minister of Lands and various high level cabinet members to address Windhoek city\u2019s urbanisation crisis which he says has culminated in the shrouding of informal settlements.<br \/>\nPresident Geingob stressed that it is very cruel and ugly to demolish a shack which is being inhabited by a family, and that the police should rather prevent the setting up of these settlements by increasing surveillance in informal settlements.<br \/>\nDr. Geingob stated that the situation in informal settlements has been styled as constituting a national humanitarian crisis, and has not been declared as a \u201cState of Emergency\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cWe should address getting rid of these informal settlements. We have a crisis where humans stay in unbearable conditions. It is a year of accountability and this thing of using legal reasons, while resolutions were passed at the land conference will not work,\u201d Geingob said.<br \/>\nPresident Geingob further lamented that some shacks are being rented out to the poor by rich.<br \/>\n\u201cSome people built good houses elsewhere for themselves and still erect shacks to rent out to poor people looking for a place to stay,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nReiterating this, Khomas regional governor Laura McLeod-Katjirua stated that it is not only the poorest of poor that live in these settlements, as studies show that 70% of informal settlers are civil servants. Katjirua further stressed that it is an embarrassing situation as Windhoek city was once ranked as Africa\u2019s cleanest city.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have to admit somewhere, somehow that we are not doing the right thing,\u201d the governor said, adding that the problem of high influx and population density in these areas is being perpetuated by attitude problems.<br \/>\n\u201cResidents state that the land belongs to government, and services provided such as toilets are vandalised after 3 weeks. We considered upgrading, however, we are being fought as some people have come to enjoy these free services,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nSharing his views, Windhoek mayor, Muesee Kazapua stated that the CoW is on a daily basis confronted by issues of lack of provision of basic services and housing provision.<br \/>\nKazapua stated that central government must react with strict measures on this issue, and draw up clear policy measures. He added that audit investigations should filter out which residents of these settlements cannot really afford housing, and who can.<br \/>\nFaniel Maanda, Manager of Human Settlements at CoW, stressed the severity of the situation, stating that in 2011, it was assessed that 87,000 people lived in Windhoek\u2019s informal settlements.<br \/>\nThat number has since grown to 131 000, with a growth rate of 7,3 % per annum. He added that Namibia\u2019s population doubling time is 9,5 years and this in itself is a disaster.<br \/>\nTouching on how much would be needed to remedy the situation, he added that for the purpose of project financing, the disaster declaration period be divide into two phases: The Immediate Intervention Period (Phase 1) and Medium Term Period (Phase 2).<br \/>\nHe added that central government should provide for funding for Phase 1, to the tune of N$1.6 billion, which will cover 26 out of 87 informal settlements while City of Windhoek covers administrative costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zorena Jantze PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has warned that individuals pushing a political agenda by preventing the police from doing their work of demolishing shacks will not be tolerated. In fact, the president is of the opinion that police officers should rather be deployed regularly to these settlements as a preventative measure in the erecting of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":238220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More police visibility in informal settlements - Geingob - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has warned that individuals pushing a political agenda by preventing the police from doing their work of demolishing shacks will\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=238207\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More police visibility in informal settlements - Geingob - Informant\u00e9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PRESIDENT Hage Geingob has warned that individuals pushing a political agenda by preventing the police from doing their work of demolishing shacks will\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=238207\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Informant\u00e9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/informantenam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-30T07:09:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-01-30T07:09:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/More-police-visibility-in-informal-settlements-Geingob.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Zorena Jantze\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@informantenews\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@informantenews\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Zorena Jantze\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/informante.web.na\\\/?p=238207#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/informante.web.na\\\/?p=238207\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Zorena Jantze\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/informante.web.na\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/07702880f644d86f880ea3a7ce3484b4\"},\"headline\":\"More police visibility in informal settlements &#8211; 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