Youth have spoken

NATIONAL Assembly Speaker Peter Katjavivi yesterday reluctantly obliged after earlier trying to renege on government's promise that he will accept a petition against the construction of a new N$2 billion parliament building.

Katjavivi had sent acting secretary to the National Assembly Findley Harker and director in the Speaker's office Gerson Tjihenuna to accept the petition on his behalf. The move angered those who marched from Katutura to Syman's Circle in Windhoek. If Katjavivi had stayed away, they would have marched to parliament, the group threatened.