Electoral bill still not in NA

THE long-awaited amendment to the Electoral Act has still not reached the National Assembly, Presidential Affairs Minister Albert Kawana told Parliament on Tuesday.

He said this indicated that the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) is ‘in a terrible mess’.’The ECN staff is now on a trip in India [to observe elections], but time is running out,’ Kawana said.ECN Chairman Dr Victor Tonchi told a conference in February that the bill had been sent to the Ministry of Local and Regional Government by the middle of last year already.’Minister Kawana is a Member of Cabinet, so he should rather enquire from Minister of Local and Regional Government, Jerry Ekandjo, why the draft bill is still lying there,’ a source close to the ECN told The Namibian.