Boko’s ‘wounded healer’ moves rile UDC loyalists

With party loyalists already on Boko’s case for failing to fire members of the former regime, more discontent kicked in this week when Boko appointed former political opponent Advocate Sidney Pilane as Judge of the Court of Appeal (CoA).

Pilane was the leader of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) faction, which led to the party break in 2017 and eventually the formation of the splinter party Alliance for Progressives (AP). Boko later fired Pilane and Co from the UDC, a matter the latter contested and lost at the CoA. President Boko, a confessed ‘wounded healer,’ his appointments don’t come as a surprise because he previously defended his choices, stating that his government is one of meritocracy, not vengeance and partisanship.