"The BDP made it clear at their Molepolole congress that they were aiming to eliminate all opposition parties and only time would tell on how they will achieve that but I am quite convinced that the security and intelligence law will be used 'effectively' to threaten and intimidate BDP's political opponents," Tau said.
He said it was amazing that the passing of the bill by Parliament coincided with the signing of a controversial Act by President Mugabe which allows security agents to tap individuals' phones if they were suspected to be a threat to the country's security.
Tau said that it was disturbing that after forty years of independence Botswana's democracy was still lagging behind new democracies. He said that it was time that the country's constitution be changed so that the President would be elected by popular vote. "The BDP is delaying this deliberately because they know that people would not vote their candidates. People should take serious note of BDP's talk that they plan to remain in power," he warned his audience.
