Of self interest and vultures

Sometime in June 2000 at a seminar at Botswana National Productivity Centre, President Ian Khama, then vice president, angered Members of Parliament (MPs) across the political divide after likening them to vultures that were all out to loot the coffers of the government. 

President Khama said this in response to MPs who at that time demanded a huge salary hike. In a rare share of accord, members of political parties represented in parliament glibly agreed to a motion calling for salary hikes of MPs a few years after their salaries were hiked by 35 percent.