{"id":301835,"date":"2021-03-04T16:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=301835"},"modified":"2021-03-04T16:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:58:35","slug":"hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=301835","title":{"rendered":"Hishoono\u2019s troubles refuse to go away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Placido Hilukilwa<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ABED-NEGO \u2018Bishop\u2019 Hishoono, a senior opposition politician who made headlines recently when he was sued by First Lady Monica Geingos for alleged defamatory statements he made on social media, is in the news again, and again, for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon being served with the First Lady\u2019s lawsuit, Hishoono apologized for the allegations he made about her alleged business dealings and her private life. His apology went hand in hand with his resignation from the position of deputy secretary-general of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC). He also resigned from his post as the IPC\u2019s Ohangwena regional immobilizer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, his troubles still continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1109\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png\" alt=\"Bishop Hishoono politician sued First Lady Monica Geingos\" class=\"wp-image-301839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 1024w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 768w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 274w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 364w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 80w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 130w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 359w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 85w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 546w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 266w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 347w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 112w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 179w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 170w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 81w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 447w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 272w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hishoonos-troubles-refuse-to-go-away.png 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hishoono, who is a primary school teacher, is now in trouble with the education ministry for utterances he made on social media at the beginning of the 2020 academic year when he urged parents to stop murmuring when requested to pay for their children\u2019s stationery because, he said, they were given a chance to vote for change during the 2019 presidential and national assembly elections, yet they voted for the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was accused of misconduct and was recently issued a final written warning, which he allegedly refused to sign.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Approached for comment, Hishoono refused to speak to Informant\u00e9, saying: \u201cI do not want to talk to you. You write nonsense. Bye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hishoono\u2019s behaviour is causing division within the IPC, with some prominent leaders proposing that he be expelled for having brought the IPC\u2019s name into disrepute, while others prefer keeping him in the party as an ordinary member.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":301839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hishoono\u2019s troubles refuse to go away - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ABED-NEGO \u2018Bishop\u2019 Hishoono, a senior opposition politician who made headlines recently when he was sued by First Lady Monica Geingos...\" \/>\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=301835\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hishoono\u2019s troubles refuse to go away - 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