The National Assembly descended into chaos on Tuesday after the Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation, Utoni Nujoma, made a statement referring to some people as ‘lazy’ for not building toilets. Speaker Peter Katjavivi lost control of the House for several minutes after several members objected to the tribal remarks made by the Swapo Party lawmaker. “The problem is that we Namibians don’t want to construct toilets.When I go to the Oresevate there, you have to wake up at night with diarrhoea running into the bush” Nujoma said. This comparison did not sit well with some members, including opposition leader McHenry Venaani, who termed Nujoma a ‘scientific tribalist’.
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