The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security has launched its five-year strategic plan, outlining its roadmap to improve national safety, immigration services, and internal security. 

Officials from the ministry marched from the Central Business District to the police headquarters to create awareness about the strategic plan and their services.

The strategic plan lays emphasis on improving immigration management and ensuring the safety for all citizens, including refugees and asylum seekers.

It also prioritises combating crime, improving road safety, better rehabilitating and reintegrating offenders, modernising border and visa systems and civil registration, and reducing statelessness.

The border and visa systems will also be modernised.

"We are also not remaining behind, as we know that the digital world is taking centre stage. The fourth industrial revolution is here, and it should not leave us behind, and as we hear and listen to our staff members, your welfare is also our priority in all aspects, and we are also committed to doing a legislative reform so that our laws are speaking to the current developments either at the national level or at the international level," said Minister Lucia Iipumbu.

The Deputy Executive Director in the Office of the Prime Minister responsible for Public Service Management, Joice Mukubi, said the plan will be cascaded into annual plans.

"Annual plans are further cascaded into individual plans of action (performance agreements), highlighting individual commitments/expected deliverables for the year. By achieving the set targets in the performance agreements, the organisation too will be able to achieve the targets for the year, which will also contribute to the achievement of the ministerial goals and ultimately the attainment of the national goals and aspirations for Namibia."