The right to...
Duma Boko | Thursday May 15, 2014 14:25
The right to...
Of all the many rights which he has been endowed with by his creator, Mpho Balopi, in all he does or says, exercises just one; the right to extreme stupidity.
He has recently been quoted in a local newspaper, an allegation he apparently repeated at some BDP event and has also persisted with on one of the radio stations, that I approached the BDP begging to join them.
This is a pathetic fallacy. And he knows it. That he should advance this falsehood, and with fanatical passion, show the levels of desperation to which the BDP has sunk.
Some of these allegations have a sinister familiarity. It was the same tenderpreneuer, Mpho Balopi, who in the lead up to the Letlhakane West by-election, came up with, and spread, the falsehood that our candidate, Filbert Nagafela, had begged to join, and been admitted into, the BDP. Of course this was deranged nonsense.
The BDP finds itself on unfamiliar territory as we approach this year's general elections. Its spell of tyranny and sheepish conformity is being broken. It is waking up to the eerie reality that most of our people, including its die hard members are disillusioned with a BDP that has taken them for granted.
The BDP is now fully aware that it has squandered the trust and resources of this nation. Its leader's unconscious fantasies and self deception have now caught up with the party and it is imploding.
The exodus of its most loyal stalwarts and their joining the Umbrella for Democratic Change has caused fits of convulsive agony in the top echelons of the Botswana Democratic Party.
Only too late have they come to appreciate that the dictatorial arrogance with which they have operated has fed the rage and resentment all sane Batswana now feel towards the BDP. Most of the leaders of the BDP are fingered in incidences of massive corruption.
Mpho Balopi's name has been mentioned prominently in relation to massive levels of corruption at the Gaborone City Council. Most of these characters only enjoy freedom and walk the streets because they have destroyed all institutions that would bring them to justice. The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) is as good as non-existent.
There is so much that Mpho Balopi must answer to. I disclosed last year, the BDP's efforts to bribe me by offering millions of Pula and positions. They failed. This was around this time last year. The answer from the BDP: flat denial. Because he has no answers to these searing indictments, Mpho Balopi can only respond by attempting to divert attention.
Realising that his leader's murderous quest for political conquest, where he had singled out opposition politicians for physical elimination has now been exposed and thwarted, he opens a fresh chapter of assassination: character assassination. He attempts to confuse public opinion on the prospects of change by seeking to tarnish my name.
This is a cheap trick not even fit for kindergarten exercise. This is all the BDP is left with now: ill constructed fiction.
They can do no more than to train their heaviest guns of malice and falsehoods on the ones they fear the most, the UDC and its leader; those poised to lead our people to deliver authentic change.
Mpho Balopi has acquired a reputation for dishonesty and barbaric stupidity.
It is for these reasons that his allegations are dismissed and rejected with the contempt they and their maker deserve.
He is so pitifully helpless to stem the tide of change that is coming. His flights of fantasy do not immunise him and his party from the onslaught of the reality that the days of their misrule are numbered. Batswana are ready to embrace change.
He has recently been quoted in a local newspaper, an allegation he apparently repeated at some BDP event and has also persisted with on one of the radio stations, that I approached the BDP begging to join them. This is a pathetic fallacy. And he knows it. That he should advance this falsehood, and with fanatical passion, show the levels of desperation to which the BDP has sunk.Some of these allegations have a sinister familiarity. It was the same tenderpreneuer, Mpho Balopi, who in the lead up to the Letlhakane West by-election, came up with, and spread, the falsehood that our candidate, Filbert Nagafela, had begged to join, and been admitted into, the BDP. Of course this was deranged nonsense.The BDP finds itself on unfamiliar territory as we approach this year's general elections. Its spell of tyranny and sheepish conformity is being broken. It is waking up to the eerie reality that most of our people, including its die hard members are disillusioned with a BDP that has taken them for granted. The BDP is now fully aware that it has squandered the trust and resources of this nation. Its leader's unconscious fantasies and self deception have now caught up with the party and it is imploding. The exodus of its most loyal stalwarts and their joining the Umbrella for Democratic Change has caused fits of convulsive agony in the top echelons of the Botswana Democratic Party. Only too late have they come to appreciate that the dictatorial arrogance with which they have operated has fed the rage and resentment all sane Batswana now feel towards the BDP. Most of the leaders of the BDP are fingered in incidences of massive corruption. Mpho Balopi's name has been mentioned prominently in relation to massive levels of corruption at the Gaborone City Council. Most of these characters only enjoy freedom and walk the streets because they have destroyed all institutions that would bring them to justice. The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) is as good as non-existent.There is so much that Mpho Balopi must answer to. I disclosed last year, the BDP's efforts to bribe me by offering millions of Pula and positions. They failed. This was around this time last year. The answer from the BDP: flat denial. Because he has no answers to these searing indictments, Mpho Balopi can only respond by attempting to divert attention. Realising that his leader's murderous quest for political conquest, where he had singled out opposition politicians for physical elimination has now been exposed and thwarted, he opens a fresh chapter of assassination: character assassination. He attempts to confuse public opinion on the prospects of change by seeking to tarnish my name. This is a cheap trick not even fit for kindergarten exercise. This is all the BDP is left with now: ill constructed fiction. They can do no more than to train their heaviest guns of malice and falsehoods on the ones they fear the most, the UDC and its leader; those poised to lead our people to deliver authentic change. Mpho Balopi has acquired a reputation for dishonesty and barbaric stupidity. It is for these reasons that his allegations are dismissed and rejected with the contempt they and their maker deserve. He is so pitifully helpless to stem the tide of change that is coming. His flights of fantasy do not immunise him and his party from the onslaught of the reality that the days of their misrule are numbered. Batswana are ready to embrace change.