Masisi attacks younger brother over poverty

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Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Parliamentary Chief Whip Tshelang Masisi on Monday launched an attack on government accusing it of poor coordination of government ministries that has led to the impoverishment of Batswana even though it (government) has engaged in poverty alleviation programmes.

Masisi is elder brother to Assistant Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Mokgweetsi Masisi, who is the face of the poverty eradication programme.

"My younger brother here is running around on an impossible mission of poverty eradication but it is government that is creating poverty amongst Batswana," he said.

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