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Reality dawns on BNF

Boko PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Boko PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

It took four years for coalition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and Botswana National Front (BNF) helmsman Duma Boko to realise that he has been neglecting his primary party (BNF) before he went public for the first time last year at a BNF elective congress. Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE reminisces Boko’s confessions

With a serious demeanour, BNF and UDC president 53-year-old Advocate Boko told his story for the first time openly to the party’s multitudes perhaps as a take home about somewhat unpalatable developments in the two parties that he leads.

His eyes were wide opened that trouble was on its way.

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