Giraffing Into The Political Arena
Monday, January 29, 2024 | 30 Views |
After picking their jaws off the floor, some started claiming his mental faculties had left him faster than an irresponsible man after hearing the pregnancy test results. His clock somehow didn’t seem to have all its numbers. The term Big 5 was coined by big-game hunters to refer to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot.
But to the general not-so-clued-up population used to hunting small game like some unfortunate rabbits not fast enough to outrun dogs with funny names, the Big 5 is purely based on size and I think the politician falls in that category. So the general citizenry including our politician do not know this and believe this is one of the instances where size does matter.
When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...