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We will search every vehicle including the police – Boko

Police officers during election. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Police officers during election. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

In order to protect the electoral system and prevent rigging, Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) president Duma Boko has indicated that Madibela Tlhopho will search every vehicle that leaves and enters polling stations during the October 30 General Election including police vehicles.

As Botswana heads to the polls later this month, Boko is convinced that the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) with the help of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) will try to rig the elections as it allegedly did in 2019.

Boko, who formed Madibela Tlhopho said the IEC secretary Jeff Siamisang is misleading by saying that people will be arrested if they stay at the polling stations after voting. “We don’t have any law of that sort therefore, no police has the right to arrest a person for waiting at the polling stations. Everyone has the right to protect their voting after casting it. We don’t want them to steal our votes,” he told UDC members recently during the launch of Kgatleng East MP candidate.

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