Youths excoriate BNYC for 'routine oversight'

A youth has accused the Botswana National Youth Council (BNYC) and the government of failure to recognise active youth who participate in youth programme development, while inactive youth are recognised.

Speaking at a ceremony to launch Botswana Youth Leaders' Tool-kit in Gaborone yesterday, a youth activist from the Kgalagadi District, Johnson Morotsi, said he was "rudely shocked" to find that though he and other youths had actively participated "in the development and editorial work in the making of this toolkit, there is no mention or acknowledgement of our contribution".

"I don't even see our picture here," Morotsi said.  "We should be sitting at the top table and being toasted for a job well done.  Instead we see people who did not partake in the toolkit being recognised."

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