'Khama is BDP's last card,' says BCP candidate

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

If he is elected as councillor for Marulamantsi, retired Senior Investigations Officer at the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) Diphetogo Maswabi will clamp down on corruption, which he says is rampant at the Gaborone City Council (GCC).

Maswabi was speaking at the weekend after being launched at a rally by the Botswana Congress Party's President Gilson Saleshando and Secretary General Taolo Lucas as the BCP candidate for the by-election scheduled for March 15 in the ward.

Maswabi criticised the BDP government's handling of the current power crisis, saying the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources Ponatshego Kedikilwe was burdened with a problem that was out of his depth.

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