BOFEPUSU against extension of SoE

Tobokani Rari PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Tobokani Rari PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The Botswana Federation of Public Private and Parastatal Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) says President Mokgweetsi Masisi should not seek an extension of the State of Emergency (SoE) since he failed to control the COVID-19 pandemic. 

When speaking at a press briefing today at Arirang Lodge, BOFEPUSU secretary-general Tobokani Rari said: “We would like to point out that the public and we, are yet to receive a ledger book of the full account of the successes and challenges that bedevilled the SoE as an intended intervention measure from the onset. There is no known clear cut national response or projection plan of how government intends to deal with the pandemic, everything seems to run on an abrupt and ad hoc medium".

"The idea of dividing the country into zones for the sake of controlling the virus seems to have faded away because it was not accompanied by any corresponding interventions including ordinate rollout of vaccination and isolation centres to protect the broader population.”  

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