Tsogwane tackles minister on disappearances
Thursday, May 02, 2013
"We want the minister to tell us what the causes of these disappearances are," Tsogwane said. "Is it human trafficking or ritual killings?"He was responding to a presentation in Parliament by Defence Minister Ramadeluka Seretse on the Governance, Safety and Security Chapter of the Midterm Review of the National Development Plan 10 (NDP 10) yesterday.
He added that he and his constituents were worried by the rate at which people disappear without trace. Infact, people in his constituency believe the disappearances were due to ritual killings, he added.Tsogwane asked the Defence Minister to state what he was doing to improve the situation. "We want to know if the police have been adequately trained to investigate such cases (ritual murders)," he said. "If they have not, some action should be taken because the nation is worried about this."
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...