Khama�s SONA much ado about nothing

Parliament resumed on Monday with President Ian Khama delivering his last State of the Nation Address (SONA) that set the stage for meetings expected to end on December 15, 2017.

Frankly, there is nothing to write home about following Khama’s SONA. Most of what the President said is a regurgitation of his past speeches and much like those, the last SONA will go down in the annals of history as one of the most uninspiring. Anyway, we cannot expect manna from Khama, which he failed to supply in his more than nine years at the helm of this wonderful Republic.

He is now left with four months to hand over the baton of power to his vice. If Khama was a chief executive officer of a private company, shareholders would have fired him for poor results. He is lucky that he is a politician and these species’ bar is held much too low. Voters in this country do not hold their leaders accountable, hence politicians get away with much worse than murder most of the time.

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