Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, Calle Schlettwein took the lead as the first Cabinet minister to declare his assets this legislative term. This, Schlettwein says, is an effort to maintain transparency and public trust in public office bearers as a virtue of good governance. At the beginning of the past legislative term, in early 2015, President Hage Geingob appealed to public office bearers to publicly declare their assets and interests. At the time, President Geingob himself and his wife Monica Geingos declared their assets and so did then Finance Minister Schlettwein. Schlettwein told NBC News that having been entrusted to serve as Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform in this political term, it is just prudent that he declared his assets and interests again. The auditing of the minister's wealth was done by the auditing firm Stier and Vente, and the compilation and declaration covers the period from 2016 until end of March 2020. In 2016 Schlettwein's assets amounted cumulatively to N$8,1 million and the total liabilities stood at N$119 964, leaving a positive balance of N$7,9 million. Currently, as per the assets and liabilities declaration, his total assets amount to N$16,4 million and the total liabilities stand at N$1 million, leaving a positive balance of N$15,4 million. The increase in net assets of N$7,4 million the minister says was a result of value addition to his house, which he renovated and extended with a stand-alone flat, on the same property. The new value of the house as per bank valuation is now N$9,650 million, compared N$3,538 million in 2016. The renovations and extension of his house he says were financed by increasing the mortgage bond on the property from N$119 964 in 2016 to N$1,8 million. His house bond now stands at N$1 million. In addition to the mortgage bond he also relied on his two Sanlam endowment policies with total termination value of N$526 125. He also used his cash investment held in a FNB Flexi Fixed Deposit Account of N$519 764 to pay for construction cost. The remainder of N$660 000 construction cost was paid from his salary and monthly GIPF pension benefits of N$684 000 net per annum and N$240 000 net per annum respectively over the five-year-term. The minister's insured value of the household goods increased by N$500 000, which he attribute to inflation. In this asset declaration, Schlettwein has included the withdrawal benefit of the Political Office Bearer’s Pension valued at N$2,575 million, which was not covered in the declaration of 2016. Schlettwein has vowed to take the public in full confidence and declare his assets for as long as he occupy public office.