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It was either I quit or commit suicide—Boko

Yandani Boko PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Yandani Boko PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

On March 7 around 11am, Parliament Speaker Phandu Skelemani announced that the then Mahalapye East legislator Yandani Boko had an urgent statement to make and granted him the floor. Boko then dropped a bombshell, by announcing he had resigned from Parliament and active politics.

He later conducted several media interviews explaining his position.

The youthful former legislator said throughout his political life, he went through betrayals and backstabbing and endured a lot from people he was close to in the constituency and party. It was only a fortnight later that Boko would face the people who made him weep uncontrollably to bid them farewell. His first stop was a Kgotla meeting called by Kgosi Tshipe Tshipe to launch some community committees.

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