The ex-Koevoet, ex-SWATF members and former Plan Combatants Association (FPCA), within Swapo have withdrawn from plans to march to State House.
This follows a splinter Plan group led by Phillipus Shipulwa who gathered last Friday with ex-Koevoet, ex-SWATF members, and threatened to hold a peaceful protest if they were not heard.
The members demanded that the State House return a portion of the N$36million they claim was given them by the apartheid regime.
FPCA spokesperson Charles Mubita in a media statement said “plan fighters will never go to bed with ex-Koevoet and ex-SWATF members”.
“We wish to categorically state that Plan combatants under the stewardship of the FPCA shall never, not now and not in this lifetime, work together with elements of the oppressive machinery responsible for the merciless massacre.
Mubita stated that the Plan splinter group intends to work with ex-Koevoet or ex-SWATF killers.
Mubita stated that FPCA does not have the inclination to accept the atrocious acts of apartheid South Africa against the Namibian population and its quislings under the ethos for national reconciliation.
“We also wish to state that Fillipus Shipulwa is not a member of FPCA and to the best of our knowledge, he was never a Plan combatant.
“Not everyone who was in exile was a Plan combatant, and most definitely not former refugees,” said Mubita.
He suggested that a clear distinction be made between refugees, and those who served under Swapo in different categories.
“We are aware of the panic that is visiting some opposition parties who fear losing members in their ranks who were in the fold of Plan during the liberation struggle,” he said.
The FPCA called upon all former Plan combatants who find themselves trapped in the counter-revolutionary armpits of opposition parties to join their ranks.
Source: namibian
