Masisi needs to refocus or he will leave without a legacy

Loyalists have been hard at the oars pushing the narrative of a reformist president, a Moses of sorts, who has arrived to deliver economic prosperity, and to deliver us from corruption and extrajudicial killings. Really?

I would be quick to point out that Masisi didn’t find things in the best order. To that extent, it is fair to pay attention to all mitigating factors that may be pleaded in his defence. But his situation is no different to that of all others before him. As soon as he had hit the ground, former President Ian Khama had to deal with a debilitating recession, a task not unlike swimming with weights attached to your feet. We came out of it in one piece, and the economy returned to stability.