"Free Brian Dioka Expresses Himself"
Monday, March 18, 2013
Your article purports that since my exit from the public service employ, I am a "Free Bird", but also claim that when I was at Botswana Television I was restricted to freely and openly talk hence your usage of the ill-informed expression that I was a "parrot" of government programmes.
I find your article to be repugnant to my character, and even exorbitantly lurid-like to say the least. Last time I checked, freedom of expression is a privilege etched on our principal law (constitution), and of which is an entitlement to all, regardless of their employ or allegiance to the public service.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...