Boko, also the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, was addressing the youth inside a packed Botho University lecture theatre on Saturday under the theme ‘Self-leadership, unemployment and entrepreneurship’. “When government changes in 2019 within the first 12 months, we would have generated no less than a 100,000 jobs. Like I told my constituents in Block 5, to do that I will call a Kgotla meeting and put those who are unemployed on one side and I will tell them right there that now you are employed from this moment on and paid by government. We would have agreed as government how much the living wage would be and we will pay all of them the money. I will then give you a job description, which would be that they stop crime and will all be policing Block 5. Kids will walk to school unmolested and nobody would be stealing from them. It will be your job. You will ensure that your neighbourhood is clean. And the government will pay,” he said.
On where the money would come from, Boko said it was important to understand that crime is expensive with loads of money spent in the whole process of arresting thieves and taking them to court. He said if crime is stopped or decreased, then the government would save and the people ensuring that crime is under control will be paid. “Because of reduced crime, you will not have your house broken into and having to buy household goods again when you could be buying something else or using the money to help save others from poverty,” he said.
