In the House... The bright shine, the dull nod on
Friday, December 20, 2013
Mephato Reatile (Ngwaketse West) : The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) MP who defected from the opposition Botswana National Front (BNF), had a good year that has endeared him to electorates. As head of a special parliamentary committee investigating maladministration at the Botswana Meat Commission, he and his team left no stone unturned in trying to figure out what went wrong at the parastatal whose wellbeing affects the majority of ordinary Batswana. As chair, he called in everybody from the Minister of Agriculture and his assistant to board members, to ordinary farmers to fully understand the mess that has brought the BMC to its knees.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...