BDP Backbenchers to bar Cabinet from party structure

The above position was taken at the recent backbenchers secret meeting. Their bone of contention is that Cabinet Ministers are supposed to account to the party’s central committee and therefore if they occupy party positions then they would not be held accountable.

It the position of the backbench is to be adopted and implemented by the BDP, it would not be the for first time that Ministers are barred from contesting for party positions as a similar scenario happened during former President Ian Khama’s administration.