Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry has once more proven that he has a strong foothold and considerable influence in government.

In recent discussions with friends at his residence, Andrew Ndishishi accused the Editor in Chief of Infor-manté as ‘ekakunya’ (literally translated in Oshiwambo means ‘blood-thirsty murderer… someone who needs to be dealt with’). Ekakunya is a derogatory reference to black Namibians who either served in South Africa’s Koevoet or SWATF forces before independence.
Ndishishi’s blissful and derogatory label was a sequel to an inquiry made by Informanté to the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and National Planning Commission (NPC) on the services certain companies rendered to the two entities in the last two decades.
The Permanent Secretary purportedly told his friends that he was tipped off by his hench-men in MTI and NPC about the inquiries, although his name was not featured anywhere in the email send to MTI and NPC.
Informanté is perplexed that someone in MTI and NPC had to inform Ndishishi that the newspaper was making enquiries about certain companies and the rushed briefings indicate that the informers knew something about the said companies and Ndishishi’s potential roles in them. Otherwise it would be difficult to understand the unprofessional conduct of the MTI and NPC officials in question. This goes a long way to strengthen the basis for our investigation. A formidable source close to government told Informanté that Ndishishi was apparently boasting that the newspaper will not discover anything.
The Informanté email was send to the MTI Permanent Secretary Dr Malan Lindeque and his Secretary and the NPC Public Relations Officer Esther Paulus. They all denied having informed Ndishishi about the inquiry. The controversial Permanent Secretary also caused a commotion at his house in Windhoek during the mourning of his wife by not only chasing Insight journalist, Tileni Mongudhi, from his house for apparently having written negative newspaper articles about him, but had also chased out some of his relatives (names known) who have apparently fallen out of his favor.
When Informanté contacted Ndishishi this week, he was apparently in a meeting and promised to get back to this reporter once his indaba adjourned. He never did and his mobile went unanswered thereafter.