Taking Parliament to the people humbug

It’s true of course, better late than never, but the point needs to be made. What do we mean by ‘taking Parliament to the people?’ Of course, it doesn’t mean literally uprooting Parliament buildings and meetings of MPs from Gaborone to the village Kgotlas! That would be crazy and nigh impossible.

Taking Parliament to the people in terms of the Speaker’s programme I believe means key parliamentary functionary(ies), Speaker or deputy, Vice President or representative plus an opposition representative visiting  villages distant from Gaborone, the seat of Parliament to interact with the common people to teach, inform and acquaint them with Parliament, what it does, how it’s constituted, how it operates, why it’s  elected the way it’s elected, how it debates and enact laws.