Speaking to Mmegi in an interview Kobedi said he is a responsible person who will continue to show the ruling party that some things still need to be corrected.
He said his hopes that the BNF leadership would try to help the party’s internal problems were dashed when things got worse by the day and he decided to quit.
“The rumours that I was paid or promised some position in the BDP are not true. I decided to join BDP because I was tired of this playing which was stopping the BNF from going forward because the new leadership was not taking members’ interests seriously. The other thing is people did not show respect for the party founder Dr Kenneth Koma and to me it was totally unacceptable,” he said.
On why he did not follow Koma to the New Democratic Front, Kobedi said that he did not see any need for the formation of a new party and that BDP appeared the only option.
Together with tycoon Robert Masitara, Kobedi was welcomed to the BDP at a rally in Phase Two last November.
He says that he was confident of helping the party achieve greater things and that he was ready to assume any duties the party wishes to assign him.
“I have always wanted to help my country. That is why most of my songs are aimed at changing people’s lives,” he said.
Kobedi added that he was one of the people who have been at the forefront in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
“I started it a long time back. In fact President Festus Mogae was following in my footsteps when he started his campaign against the disease. When I started hanging the condoms from my guitar and my neck, people thought I was mad and that was during the time when AIDS was still a secret and I was trying to sensitise people to behave well,” he said.
His track “Segametsi Mogomotsi” dedicated to the Mochudi girl whose mysterious death resulted in riots in 1995, caused a stir as some people perceived it to be against the BDP government for failing to publish the Scotland Yard report about the death. But Kobedi claims that he was only representing the public’s feeling about the situation.
“I know it was not played on radio because the announcers felt I was attacking some people but it was just a song,” he claimed.
