I pinched myself, twice!

I couldn’t believe what I read in the newspapers last week. Was I dreaming? His Excellency President Lieutenant General Ian Khama, addressing a public rally in the mining township of Jwaneng where he welcomed a defector from the BNF could tell his audience without blinking an eye and appeal to the leader of the BNF: “Ask Boko not to kill the BNF symbol, if they are still fighting now I do not see them doing well in the general elections. I am not going to mention their friends The Botswana People’s Party because they are history...”

I had to pinch myself to check whether I was awake or dreaming in my sleep! Can anyone, let alone a whole president of the Republic of Botswana, get more hypocritical? President Khama is one president since the advent of multiparty democracy in Botswana who dreams loud of eliminating the opposition in the impending October general elections. He ardently wishes to win all 57 constituencies come October! Suddenly, tongue-in-the-cheek he has compassion for the beleaguered BNF! We know he hates the dirty political game; shouldn’t he refrain from making politics not only dirtier but cheaper by talking from both sides of his mouth?

At the same public rally where evidently he was struggling for diversionary words in the week that the  Leader of the Opposition, Dumelang Saleshando was making a meal of him and his party by exposing him as an untrustworthy leader who had gleefully reported that from July 2013, power cuts would be a thing of the past, when contrarily, power outages came back with a vengeance! In that scenario of obvious mental agony and confusion, when  at a loss what to think, say and do, the befuddled, dazed, impertinent, imperious and impudent president  could do no better but demean himself by articulating a fabrication and circulating and broadcasting it - leader of the opposition in some precarious position, because : “........These three (Rammidi, Gobotswan and Lucas), say Saleshando is a dictator, my source within the BCP revealed that the three prefer James Olesitse as the party president....”

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