Boko dismisses child support issue

OARABILE MOSIKARE
Staff Writer | Monday August 12, 2013 00:00

 

Last week Friday a tabloid newspaper reported that Boko a renowned human rights lawyer and also Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) president is owing P21,000 in child maintenance. In the newspaper article Boko dismissed the allegation as untruthful.In a bold move, Boko told his 795 Facebook friends that it is remarkable how many untruths, contrived and padded stories get published about me. 'Some are actuated by rabid malice, others just enforced stupidity or plain ignorance. I read them with the scornful derision I reserve for fools and their foolishness.'The maintenance issue alleged in one of the newspapers was contrived by a fertile imagination that however fails to state the facts,' wrote Boko.

In another post he wrote: 'They exhume a matter that was withdrawn and abandoned by the claimant. It is such a farce!  The lesson is simple. When you step up to the plate in this terrain expect these hazards. They do not make the experience any less noble and worthy. I am ramrod staunch; unshakeable!'One of his admirers Oliver Modise did not take kindly to the tabloid story about Boko. Modise wrote that leaders too like commoners have private lives. 'Boko Duma's sordid details are not worth ink. He is a mere mortal and not an infallible human being. Of course he is a marvel jurist, has world class prose and perhaps the only mortal with a sense of speech,' said Modise.

He continued that for proper dialectics this country needs more politicians of Boko's calibre. Let's take Boko to task on public policy issues and his ambition to change the status quo. Imagine if we were to gauge politicians as standard bearers merely because they pay maintenance claims or have not defaulted on an electricity bill!How pathetic would that be! Politics is a voluntary enterprise and most people will find it a ruesome exercise if the press gullibly bulldozes into personal affairs private.' 

In response to Modise's Facebook post, Boko said: 'Interesting discussion! Am glad you guys are now homing in on the real questions. You must be very careful when you debate what a leader is supposed to have done or said from storylines presented by the press or others. Not only are some of the storylines third rate hearsay, some of them have an obvious bias.'

He asserted that often, serious analysts do triangulation, to get as close to accurate facts as possible. 'And interestingly again, the many moral tutors out there do not lay out their own lives for scrutiny so we can assess their claim to be moral tutors. History is replete with great women and men who were never pillars of moral rectitude. That has not redounded against their stellar contributions! It must have been in the same spirit that Jesus scribbled on the ground as the crowd bayed for the blood of that woman, and only looked up briefly to ask that he who had not a single fault or blemish throw the first stone! When he next checked they had all quietly left.'