Breaking Rumours - MP Resigns

One of the MPs decided to walk away from a lucrative parliamentary job. Well, lucrative in comparative terms because personally any money that gets into my account is incidental and is usually a trigger for me to harass my account and nearby ATMs.

The smarter reader would have deduced that my occupation is a hustler, which is street speak for 'unemployed'. So in my world, anyone who gets a salary with allowances like housing allowance, phone allowance and strange allowances like allowances for owning a spotted cat has a lucrative job. Obviously because the country is inhabited by conspiracy theorists, a myriad of unofficial reasons were bandied about. For those that don't know, if you mention the name Botswana it conjures up three things: diamonds, beef and conspiracies.

The third one we still haven't figured out how to package for export yet but I suppose bodies like BEMA must have constituted a committee to see how this can be packaged and exported. The rumour mill needed some oiling and the resignation of the MP turned out to be the perfect lube.

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