Thank you masisi for clarity on the Mosu airstrip

On Friday Presidential Affairs Minister Mokgweetsi Masisi told parliament and the nation that the Mosu Airstrip, built by the army for President Ian Khama is indeed being built on private land.

This is after months of consistent denials from the Office of the president, in particular from the government spokesman Dr Jeff Ramsay. To be fair to Ramsay he initially seemed to confirm that the Mosu airstrip is being built on private land, before the answers changed to public land, and that it is being built 300metres away from the President's private lodge.

What Minister Masisi also clarified, which is worth saluting is the fact that the private airstrip on private land is nothing new or strange or smacks of corruption but a practice and privilege that has been enjoyed over the years by all the past three presidents of Botswana.

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