�Daily News deliberately twisted my statements� :: Mmegi Online

Dear Editor, The Botswana Daily News of Thursday 14 January, 2016 (Paper No 251, page 10) carried an article titled: “ESP e tla thusa go tlhabolola matshelo” literally meaning “ESP will help to positively transform lives,” in which my address of a kgotla meeting was supposedly the subject. In the said article I am alleged to have said “… people must take this programme seriously because it is going to change their lives.”

For the record, I would like to state that although the ESP was a small part of my address, it was taken out of context and twisted to manufacture a new and an untrue message altogether. I never uttered such words as the headline attributes to me, nor the quotation, and believe that the deliberate twisting of words was done with malicious intent. As way of background, it is common knowledge that kgotla meetings are the primary fora for Members of Parliament to engage constituents.

As such I am currently on my first leg of meetings in the Molepolole South constituency starting from January 11, 2016 till January 21, 2016.

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