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‘BDP doesn’t have resources to unmask Museveni’

Hamstrung: Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) does not have resources to unmask the identities of pseudo Facebook accounts like France Museveni PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Hamstrung: Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) does not have resources to unmask the identities of pseudo Facebook accounts like France Museveni PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

President Mokgweetsi Masisi has revealed that the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) does not have resources to unmask the identities of pseudo Facebook accounts like France Museveni.

Leading up to the BDP elective congress held this past weekend in Tsabong, chairperson and deputy secretary-general aspirants, Nonofo Molefhi and Unity Dow respectively singled out France Museveni as the main architect of pre-election intimidation tactics.

Earlier this year, Dow, a former minister and Specially Elected Member of Parliament, told the media that she is under the general impression that Museveni is not just a random political agitator on Facebook, but rather a syndicate of protected individuals tasked with tarnishing her name.

Editor's Comment
The State apparatus must be sanitised

When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...

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