Masitara launches crusade against corrupt MPs, civil servants

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Thursday March 6, 2014 17:43

 

In a campaign document that he drops door to door in his constituency, Masitara states: “I am quite sure that some Members of Parliament, some government officials and some local businessman who are involved in corrupt deals and money laundering, would rather not have me back in Parliament in 2014, in fear of my unique skills in investigating and uncovering fraudulent investments and money laundering”.

He says his absence in Parliament would allow the culprits to continue with their corrupt activities unhampered.

Masitara says people in his constituency must vote him back in large numbers as a symbolic declaration that they support his anti-corruption crusade.   He says it is high time people declare their property and how they acquired it.

“Failing which these assets should be confiscated by the government. This particularly refers to the affluent and the foreigners,” he says.

Masitara says since there is significant improvement in the country’s economy, he will continue fighting for clinics to be fully supplied with the necessary equipment, roads in his constituency to be tarred and paved, street lights and lighting places which would otherwise hide criminals to be lit.

He wants his constituency to have recreational places such as sports grounds and entertainment places for youth.

He says he has started building recreational parks in Block 8 and Block 3 and lately negotiations are underway with the construction of a park at Extension 16 in Broadhurst.  

He says his foundation is in the process of sending to the USA a 13 year-old boy who sustained burns when his blanket caught fire from a candle he was using to study. He says the boy is due to undergo specialised plastic and reconstructive surgeries in the USA.

Masitara was appointed to the board of the Global Organisation for Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) last year. In the general elections, he will be challenged by Annah Motlhagodi of Botswana Congress Party (BCP) and Botswana National Front (BNF) president Duma Boko in the newly created Bonnington North constituency.