Gaborone-Maun route causes rift between transport giants
Monday, November 14, 2022 | 40 Views |
Motsatsi
The two parties, who are well-known transport companies that mainly deal with passenger transport logistics, have not been seeing eye to eye due to pre-booking and pre-ticketing of trips on the route.
Motsatsi, which has been plying the route a bit longer, was not happy that Mokoka who joined the same route in July 2020 and come up with the idea of pre-trip ticket booking, which Motsatsi believed was flouting of regulations of the Road Transport (Permits) Regulations Act.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...