Balopi Starts On A Wrong Footing

The newly-elected Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) secretary general, Mpho Balopi has surely started on a wrong footing with his first public comments on a sensitive national issue, the public workers’ delayed back pays.

Balopi is quoted undermining the public sector union federation, BOFEPUSU, painting them as an entity that is about to benefit, allegedly from a BDP congress resolution in Tonota, that amongst others according to Balopi, resolved to pay public servants’ back pays immediately.

We feel Balopi had missed the point, completely. Had he taken his time to grasp the gist and nitty-gritty of the matter, Balopi would have learnt that way before the BDP Tonota congress, where Balopi was elected secretary general, BOFEPUSU and the employer had long agreed that the BOFEPUSU public servants would be paid their three percent and four percent salary increments with effect from July month end, as well as back pays.

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