Boko accuses Khama of being repressive

Botswana National Front (BNF) president Duma Boko has accused president Ian Khama of being repressive and using fear to deal with people who do not conform to his way of thinking.

Speaking at a press conference organised by his party in Tlokweng on Tuesday, Boko said the strike by public servants has shown that Botswana is led by a president who has asserted himself as the centre of the country's polity and supreme ruler "on whose word and taste everything is modelled.

He has turned his own political party into a benighted organisation, suffocated by a fog of orthodoxy and political repression imposed by his ruthless dictatorship. He seeks to suck our country into this political catastrophy," he said. The BNF leader said they will not let Khama destroy the country. He said Khama has compromised Botswana's future by neglecting the immediate welfare of the public sector workers and citizens generally.

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