In the House... The bright shine, the dull nod on

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.