Trial-awaiting former ministers Bernard Esau and Sacky Shangala have expressed disappointment in Namibia's criminal justice system, claiming that all they did was execute their ministerial functions and not conspire to commit corruption, money laundering, and racketeering.

They told the Ombudsman, Basilius Dyakugha, who visited the Windhoek Correctional Facility to inspect the conditions of the cells and other facilities.

The two former ministers, together with their other accused, have now been in the holding cells for four years as trial-awaiting prisoners.