UB SRC members join BMD

MPHO TLALE
Correspondent | Thursday June 3, 2010 00:00

Members of the Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Botswana (UB), who have been in office for only two months announced yesterday at a press conference, held at Falcon Crest in Gaborone, that they were resigning from the BDP to join the newly formed Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD). The BDP UB's -GS26 won all the seats in the council in the last election.

Altogether six ministers left. They are the vice-president Ronald Ngwepe, administration secretary Boiki Bose, minister of justice, Andrew Motsage, minister of academic affairs, Nomsa Bakane, the minister of sports, Jacques Kelebeng and  secretary general,  Dominic Kwena.

Speaking at the conference Kwena described the BDP as an indescribable animal that has grotesquely  transformed over the past two years .

'The party has lost its internal democratic credentials which initially attracted us to it in the first place,'Kwena said that as UB student's BMD will give priority to student issues and will work with other opposition parties that have similar intentions.

Kwena accused the ruling BDP of turning public assets into propaganda propelling instruments citing both RB1 and 2, BTV and The Daily News as those tools used.

On welcoming their new members, a BMD official Kabo Morwaeng said that although the BDP is denying that they are losing members to the BMD the fact remains that masses continue to seek political asylum from their party.