Commission 'targets' Khama
Friday, November 25, 2022 | 370 Views |
The constitutional review according to the Commission is set to ‘help the country to correct injustices of the past’. With the former Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) leader having quit his late father Sir Seretse Khama’s party on the eve of the 2019 General Election, the Commission has recommended that a retired president who has served an aggregate period of 10 years must not return to active politics. Khama served two terms as the president of Botswana from 2008 to 2018, a period of exactly 10 years.
Khama whose ‘magic’ had de-campaigned some ruling BDP bigwigs to their fall amongst others former Cabinet minister Shaw Khathi in the 2018 BDP primary elections has never left political life since he handed the baton to Masisi on April 1, 2018. Khama went on to form the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) which won all the three Serowe constituencies from the BDP in 2019.
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