BCP SG denies Okavango Delta land allocation

Goretetse Kekgonegile PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Goretetse Kekgonegile PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The newly elected Botswana Congress Party (BCP) secretary-general and Maun East Member of Parliament (MP), Goretetse Kekgonegile has dismissed reports he was recently awarded a 2,000-hectare plot in the Okavango Delta, calling this a smear campaign.

The reports state that Kekgonegile will soon develop the land into a safari lodge. Reacting to the reports, the MP said the land talked about is a tshimo (field) situated at Xhoahatshao about 15 kilometres from Gumare village and five kilometres from Tubu village. “It is not in the Okavango Delta and I do not have a plot in the delta,” he said.

He explained that the 1,000-hectare field belonged to his late mother, Balehe Gagosi and was passed down to him as an inheritance plot by Gumare Sub Land Board in 2021 having done the transfer of ownership in 2012. “This is just deliberate defamation propaganda intended by political opponents due to Bophirima ward issues and the BCP press conference I did. The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) was not involved and I do not have any relationship with BDP in whatever form,” Kekgonegile said.

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