Trashing the document in an interview yesterday, the publicity secretary of the Botswana National Front (BNF) - who doubles as the spokesman of UDC - Moeti Mohwasa, said member parties of UDC are still working on the allocation of constituencies.Mmegi is in possession of the controversial document according to which the BNF has been allocated 27 constituencies, the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) 23, while the country's oldest political party, the Botswana Peoples Party (BPP), has a paltry seven constituencies.Incumbent BNF and BMD Members of Parliament have also been allocated constituencies.
Mmegi is in possession of another document according to which a tentative strategy for allocation of council wards was presented to UDC parties on August 2.However, the two documents have an outstanding irregularity for official papers: they are not signed, bear no office stamp and are written on plain paper that carries no emblem or letterheads. The one that purports to address the sharing of council wards characterises the task as "a complex exercise that requires a judicious balance between the collective interests of the parties involved and (those) of the people to be served"."The main object of the strategy must, therefore, be to produce a cadre of local councillors that is truly representative of and is acceptable to all the structures of the UDC across the length and breadth of the country," the document says.Because the desired outcome of such a strategy must be improvement in the delivery of services to Batswana, "it must inspire public confidence, be objective and all-inclusive".
