Poverty eradication is a wild dream - Raletobana

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Member of Parliament for Kweneng East, Mmoloki Raletobana has described the government's programme on poverty eradication as an impossible and wild dream.

Commenting on President Ian Khama's State of the Nation Address yesterday, the MP said no country in the world has eradicated poverty, hence it is ill-advised for government to dream the impossible.

Choosing his words carefully, he said that government should first attempt to reduce poverty rather than engaging in a too ambitious a project with an unachievable goals. He urged government to review existing poverty alleviation programmes and make amendments where necessary.

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