The outspoken legislator said that people are even afraid to make phone calls because they suspect that their phones are bugged. "I want to believe that it is the duty of the government to say to the nation that 'you can speak freely on your phone as nobody can bug your phone'.  Let us get this assurance. I don't want to believe that in an open society people should cower in fear," he said.

He noted that people are afraid to have conversations in bars because they never know who is listening.

Ntuane also expressed concern about the extra-judicial killings, noting that this was unheard of in this country.  "Let's remove the phrase in lexicography."

He said the best thing the government could do was to investigate the cases of extra-judicial killings and bring the perpetrators to book. Ntuane said he believes that Merafhe was misquoted when he said that "one or two killings" would not tarnish the country's name internationally. He does not believe that the vice-president could say something like that.

Commenting on the running of elections, the legislator wondered why in a country, with such a small voting population, people are made to queue until late.  He has observed elections in some places like the Eastern part the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where 800,000 voters had registered. But there were no such queues. The voters were split according to alphabetical order.

"I feel democracy is work in progress. We must think in a way which will consolidate our processes," he said.

Ntuane said the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) needed to introspect and review how to run the elections. He called on the IEC to be innovative because they are always observing elections in other countries.

A former specially elected MP, Ntuane also called for the abolition of specially nominated politicians, both at council and parliamentary levels.

He said the specially elected MPs and councillors are no longer needed because both the councils and Parliament are not lacking skilled personnel.  "We can't say we are lacking in certain areas," he said.

Citing how corrupt the system was, Ntuane said in their constituency, they submitted the name of one individual to be considered for council nomination.  But he said the person who was specially nominated for the constituency was not even from that area. 

He said the special nomination system is used as a reward. He added that the individuals who are specially nominated are appointed for the purpose of destabilising elected representatives.

He also finds it unfair to nominate people who lost elections. "We should abolish the system of special nominations.  Let us leave it to the voters to decide who should come here (Parliament)," he said.

Ntuane reiterated his call for political party funding.

He said now that he has been involved in elections, he knows what he is talking about."An election campaign is expensive in Botswana and everywhere else," he said.

Ntuane said other countries, which are not financially stable like Botswana, are able to finance their political parties because they understand that democracy is not cheap. 

The MP further called for the enactment of a law of declaration of assets for elected politicians. He said such a law would be about protecting the integrity of public representatives. 

He said it should also be extended to heads of parastatal firms, members of judiciary and senior civil servants.

"What is it that we are hiding?  If we proclaim to be a model democracy, why can't we conform to modern practices?" he said.

Ntuane slammed tribalism, noting that it is a cause for concern that people are identifying themselves by their tribes. 

He said if the Botswana Television (Btv) was going to buy television rights for covering a ritual of a specific tribe then where is it going to stop?  To him, if Btv covers tribe A then it should buy the television rights from other ethnic groups as well.