The official opposition party Congress of Democrats challenged President Hifikepunye Pohamba to immediately stop corruption and that his government should arrest and charge all persons implicated in irregularities, corruption and embezzlement of public funds. The SWAPO party should also come clean and act against those in their ranks implicated in "corrupt activities", said Ben Ulenga, president of CoD during a press conference this week. The recent scandals about AVID Investment clinching a N$ 30 million loan deal from the government’s Social Security Commission, which was paid into a SWAPO-affiliated company Namangol Investments was a point in case, Ulenga said. A board member of AVID was SWAPO youth league secretary general and deputy minister of works, who gave a dubious testimony about AVID in court last week. According to Ulenga, "public funds are made available to SWAPO leaders and members for them to become overnight millionaires in a criminal manner without business credentials and without compliance with the law". This was incestuous, Ulenga said.

Another scandal surfaced this week with the government’s Offshore Development Company (ODC) looking for N$100 million it "invested" in Tri-Angle Investments in Botswana, a defunct business.

Vice-president Nora Schimming-Chase of the CoD said that the SWAPO policy as laid down in a previous manifesto of appointing only "loyal and tested SWAPO cadres" in key positions had led to such scandals.