The Office of the President has refuted allegations circulating on social media that President Hage Geingob said primary and secondary education would no longer be free. The information has been on social media since Saturday evening, shortly after the Swapo Party concluded its Central Committee meeting. It alleges that Geingob cancelled free education on grounds that Government could no longer afford it and that he blamed the late Minister of Education, Abraham Iyambo for introducing free primary and secondary education, referring to the decision as a mistake. The President allegedly also stated that he never supported the idea. Approached on Sunday, Press Secretary in the Office of the President, Albertus Aochamub told Nampa the information is fake. “It is illogical that something like that can be factual,” he said. Similarly responding to Nampa on Sunday, Swapo Secretary General Nangolo Mbumba said the Constitution is clear and nobody in Namibia could deprive any child of free education. “I do not know the source of that information, but you know that it is election time and those stories circulating are aimed at putting the President in a bad light,” he said. Mbumba added the Namibian Constitution was clear in that every child in Namibia must attend school from the age of seven to 16.