NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma made the national army band replay the national anthem at a parade because it was too slow, The Namibian newspaper reported. They were playing at a passing-out parade for national youth service recruits at the Walvis Base military base. “I don’t know why everyone plays our anthem so slowly, even internationally,” the paper reported Nujoma as telling the bandmaster. Still not satisfied with the second, faster version, Nujoma urged the band to practise more and called for more instruments for the band. “That was better, but it can still improve,” he said. – AFP