And the circus goes on

Just last week, the Ian Khama administration announced that it is appointing a ‘Commission of Inquiry’ into problems bedeviling the education sector on the back of the declining Junior Certificate in Education (JCE) examination results. More crisis could be in the offing as the nation awaits the BGCSE results.

What is intriguing about the latest episode is the report that the commission is led by none other than the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Kitso Mokaila. When he headed the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, reports of state-sponsored poaching and unlawful capture of live animals, particularly lion cubs and kudus, abounded. At his current ministry, Mokaila is struggling to produce the electricity that his ministry promised us two to four years ago. He has cast us back to the age of paraffin and candles.