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Namibian police place week-long ban on public gatherings

Xinhua, June 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

The planned demonstration by Namibian youth against the proposed building of a new parliament is unlikely to happen after the police placed a ban on all mass gatherings between June 13 and 18.

The order, issued Wednesday by the police Lieutenant Sebastian Ndeitunga, said the decision to ban all public gatherings was because of several international meetings.

One of the events is the 31st session of the African Caribbean and Pacific and European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly set for June 11 until 25.

The youth want to gather in the Parliamentary Gardens, a few meters from the parliament, on June 16 to express their discontent with the 2.4 billion Namibian dollars (1.6 billion U.S dollars) new parliament.

According to the youth, this money can be used to build schools, hospitals and buy medicine, while the government said the current parliament is too small for the 104 members.

One of the organizers of the demonstration, Job Amupanda, said Wednesday that they have engaged a lawyer to confront the police on the ban. Enditem