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Trust Freddy Herald Correspondent
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage is adopting an integrated Information Communication Technology (ICT) system as it seeks to enhance efficiency in service delivery.
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe revealed this yesterday, while addressing a visiting Namibian parliamentary delegation from the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Defence and Security, in the country to discuss security-related challenges and ways to sustain an accountable and transparent environment that is conducive for development.
The team wanted to see how the Ministry of Home Affairs operates its departments and the legal framework, as well as sharing experiences.
“We are introducing what we call an integrated ICT Solution for the ministry which we believe if introduced will change the whole country,” Minister Kazembe said.
“We have come up with a strategy that consists of individual computerised systems of all departments that are going to be interrelated.”
Once all departments are computerised, Minister Kazembe said the system will detect all criminals on wanted list in their respective nations before they get into the country.
“It would mean that if somebody commits a crime it means the entire system will be notified and you can’t leave the country because the moment you present your passport it notifies immigration officers,” he said.
Minister Kazembe urged the visiting delegation to also embrace technology so that they can work together in holding criminals accountable.
After a long discussion with the visiting delegation, Minister Kazembe discovered that the two countries had a lot in common.
“The challenges that we are facing here are similar to what they are facing,” he said.
“Our roadmap is to a larger extent similar to their roadmap so we were just sharing ideas and also looking at areas we can continue to share ideas.”
Leader of Namibia’s parliamentary delegation from the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Ms Lucia Witbooi heaped praises on Zimbabwe for using locally-based solutions.
“I can take two things out from what has been presented , a country is build by its own people using their own resources,” she said.
“It is something I can take home because in Namibia we have our natural resources that we can use to develop our nation.
“We are here to exchange notes, share experiences and we have already emulated what Zimbabwe is doing and we will not stop copying each other as long it brings development to our countries.”
Recently, Germany agreed to pay Namibia €1,1 billion as it officially recognised the Herero-Nama genocide at the start of the 20th century and according to Minister Kazembe, Zimbabwe will soon start to push for reparations.
The delegation also toured where the Museum of African Liberation is being constructed in Harare and the National Heroes Acre.
Ms Witbooi was impressed by the ongoing work and implored other African countries to play their part in the construction of the Museum for the benefit of the future generations.
“This is a good idea so that we can keep the history of our liberation struggle alive for generations to come and get information from this museum,” she said.
She implored all African countries to bring their war artefacts and other items for the purpose of preserving history.
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