The Lead Youth Commander of the Landless People's Movement's Youth Element, Duminga Ndala, has called for the active participation of young people in politics.

The LPM youth wing held its first conference at Rundu aimed at establishing youth structures in the Kavango East Region.

Ndala said young people's exclusion from decision-making would continue if they do not enter politics.

She noted that their forefathers had liberated Namibia from colonialism, and Ndala, therefore, urges the youth to channel their energy by becoming political activists.

"Be an activist in your community. We all know our communities are faced with a lot of problems. The other way is through elections. We, as young people, have a problem when it comes to elections. We go to a bar in Kaisosi or Tuhingireni, and we will suffer the whole time. And then, after five years, we still complain about the unemployment rate. Those that are at UNAM complain that NSFAF is not paying our non-tuition fees on time."

On his part, the party's organiser in Mukwe Constituency, Simasiku Muyoba, wants to see an increase in the number of young people in both chambers of Parliament for them to influence policies. 

"We are now 32 years old as Namibians, and our average age is still 55, which means who makes the majority of the rules? Who makes the policies that affect young people? We can draft them, but who has to approve them? Who has to amend them? It is still those guys who are 55."

Muyoba was assigned to act as Kavango East Regional Youth Commander, while the conference also established Rundu Urban and Rundu Rural Constituency structures