The motion, which was tabled, debated and adopted but put on ice during the eighth sitting of Parliament, was first tabled by the then Barolong MP, Ronald Sebego. This time around it was Kanye North MP, Kentse Rammidi, who returned the motion to the house. It is unclear whether the wording of the motion was the same. The legislator did not have a smooth presentation. First to interrupt him was Boteti North MP, Slumber Tsogwane. He appeared to remember that Sebego once presented the motion, but was unsure whether it was passed or not. The Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Margaret Nasha, reminded Tsogwane that it was debated and adopted during the eighth Parliament, and that the current sitting is the 10th and no known action has been taken on the house's decision.
It has been mentioned in the house several times. Nasha explained, that nothing forces ministers to implement decisions reached by the National Assembly. Since it was re-tabled in a different session in the past, standing orders did not forbid it - unless the minister told the house that something would be done about it. After several interruptions where MPs wanted to know whether a precedence was being set to the effect that all motions can be re-tabled if no action has been taken on them, the mover went on with his presentation. "The car loan scheme is easily accessible while it is difficult to get loans from banks like the National Development Bank (NDB). Yet in areas like Siele's constituency, ploughing fields are lying barren without crops because of shortage of hauling power like tractors. Through its programmes, the government supplied farmers with fertilisers but they are just kept in houses because farmers waited for tractors until all the fields' moist evaporated. Yet the scheme caters for expensive vehicles that cost up to P350,000. But there are tractors with ploughs that cost around P250,000. More so that a tractor can help its owner with the servicing of the loan, a car cannot," Rammidi said.
