The hypocrisy of the BDP

Dumelang Saleshando
Dumelang Saleshando

During the just ended general debate on the 2014/2015 budget speech, three members of cabinet (Peter Siele, Shaw Kgathi and Patrick Masimolole) made statements whose import was to suggest that the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) was colluding with foreign based formations to topple the Botswana government.

 

Kgathi stated as follows on the floor of Parliament, “Nyaa bagaetsho, golo moo ga goa siama in the sense that I do not know what is really breeding this arrogance.  Is it because of the money that they are having from this Labour Party kwa England which to me is tantamount to a coup where a political party is being financed with an exclusive decision to uproot the Botswana Democratic Party as a democratically elected party, that is not correct?”

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