He said the P583 million allocated for the programme in the last financial year could have been used to establish industries from which 31,000 permanent jobs could have been created. He said the P610 million set aside for the programme this financial year is enough to create 35,000 permanent jobs. He stated that the P178 million government allocated to the revived Tirelo Sechaba programme is enough to create 7,000 permanent jobs. “The only alternative that the ruling party has is to come up with Ipelegeng while UDC looks at creating permanent jobs for the 67,500 people engaged in Ipelegeng. The problem is not money but poor planning,” Mmolotsi asserted. He warned people in Selebi-Phikwe that they will relocate to their villages because the town would be non-existent in the next 10 years if they do not change the government.
He wondered why the electorate continues to vote for people who have failed to build proper infrastructure like hospitals and good sewerage systems, let alone address unemployment, closure of companies and low production at BCL mine. “Time has come to vote UDC into power and we promise that we are going to change things,” he stated. UDC is a political partnership between BMD, Botswana National Front (BNF) and Botswana People’s Party (BPP).
