Nkate Refutes BCP 'Alert' Report

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Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) secretary general, Jacob Nkate, has described the Botswana Congress Party (BCP)'s second democracy alert report launched last week as an attempt by the BCP to discredit President, Ian Khama "because he is popular".

In its report to the international community, the BCP says that Khama is personalising the presidency by making unilateral decisions on matters of national interest.
In the report, the ruling BDP government comes under attack for being secretive and unaccountable.

The report also comments clearly on what it characterises as the erosion of democracy, civil liberties and the rule of law.
In an interview this week, Nkate said that the BCP was deliberately misleading the nation by saying that Khama is ruling through 'presidential decrees', when in fact all these were cabinet directives.

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