I have lived poverty - Boko

It is the first of many that I and the current leadership of the Botswana National Front will hold in the course of carrying out our mandate to the party as well as our obligations to the nation.

This particular press conference has a specific purpose. We are here to speak to the pressing challenges facing our nation; to seek and locate the root causes of the calamities that choke our people and degrade their existence. We are here to slash through smokescreens; to scale and break down the consolidated walls of denial constructed in successive phases of Botswana Democratic Party leadership. We are here to tear down walls maintained and reinforced through stealth, by the leadership of President (Ian) Khama, more poignantly in his State of the Nation Address delivered yesterday. We are here to attest, that the minerals and wealth of this country; its diamonds; have only a spurious glitter for the vast majority of our people.