Villages still waiting for police stations
Monday, April 04, 2011
The promises were made when Festus Mogae was still president. Marapong headman of record, Bakani Mampori said criminals strike because they are aware that the police station is in Francistown."We need a police station here. Not a month passes by without reports of stolen livestock."
He added that Marapong is a rapidly growing village with no streetlights and people are frequently beaten and robbed. "Even police cannot patrol in the dark because they will be attacked especially women because they have no means of defending themselves," he added.
“Injustice anywhere is a threatto justice everywhere.”— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.We listened, and we want very much to believe him, but our belief will not be secured by fine speeches; it will be secured only by action.For far too long, there has been a suspicion amongst ordinary Batswana that the law has two faces; one for the ordinary man and woman struggling to make ends meet, and another, gentler face for the well-connected and the...