Written by Patience Nyangove
Thursday, 10 June 2010
SWAPO Khomas regional coordinator, Michael Mwinga, allegedly rammed into a house owned by former Swapo member and Councillor for Tobias Hainyeko Constituency, Captain Erastus Endjala in the early hours of Friday morning.
Endjala is now a member of the Rally for Democracy and Progress party.
In photographs taken shortly after the incident in possession of Informanté a seemingly drunken Mwinga appears to have wetted his pants despite his denials Wednesday that he ever did so.
Although he admitted that he was photographed at the scene of the accident, he claimed the pictures were doctored.
"Why would I wet my pants? These pictures are factious. It's just a ploy to character assassinate me," he said.
According to Martha Endjala, the Captain's wife, she was called by her sister's children who stay at the house near Wanaheda Police Station around 12h15 informing her that a Nissan bakkie had rammed into their wall.
"The children said the driver of the car wanted to run away before swapping seats with one of the boys he was travelling with so that it would look as if he wasn't the one driving the car when the accident happened."
Endjala said when they drove to the house they found that Mwinga who allegedly was driving the car when the incident happened seemed to have been under the influence of alcohol.
"It was fortunate that he bumped into a tree first before he rammed into the wall of the seating room which luckily did not suffer much damage. This man is a big somebody who is always drunk and now he is trying to lie that he wasn't the one driving the car," she said.
Captain Endjala said witnesses saw Mwinga trying to run away from the incident.
"He tried to drive away but the car would not start and that's when we hear he swapped seats with one of the boys to look as if he wasn't the one driving the car. He then later claimed that he was teaching the boy how to drive but how can one teach someone to drive in the middle of the night? He then later claimed he was coming from a relative's house to settle family disputes but in reality we know him as a victim of alcohol."
Captain Endjala said the case was not reported to the police because Mwinga agreed to pay damages to the fence and wall.
"His car was damaged and it had to be towed from the house."
When contacted for comment Mwinga initially refused to comment saying," Let the Endjalas give you the story. I am not ready for that (to comment). It's not a story."
A senior Swapo official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Mwinga has, for the past years, allegedly turned to beer mostly because of frustrations within the party where he is not being promoted.
"Mwinga is one of the long serving coordinators of the party and come elections he is used to campaign and after elections others get promoted to ambassadorial posts or Members of Parliament but he is left out.
"He has been regional coordinator for as long as I can remember. The previous regional coordinators for Kunene and Karas were all promoted into Parliament and are now deputy ministers but he was left out.
"The guy is now too much into drinking. Last time he went after a meeting to Tobias Hainyeko and got himself a woman and never returned home. Apparently he was involved in a fight with the woman and his identity documents were thrown out of the car and when people found them a manhunt was launched people thinking he had been abducted."
Mwinga could not comment on this after hanging up on the reporter.
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