Mr President, please fire Kaboeamodimo!

Now that Mogomotsi Kaboeamodimo has come out clearly that he is the one who has failed to safeguard balanced coverage on Btv and Radio Botswana, we can now address him directly. His hollow threats should not intimidate us.

You Mr Kaboeamodimo has failed to offer fair coverage to the warring BDP factions; you have failed dismally to offer balanced coverage on the Kalafatis murder case, and have equally failed miserably to report fairly on the BDP breakaway party and in your Botswana Guardian letter of May 7th, you have in effect conceded that you were the one responsible for repeating BDP propaganda on Btv news on subsequent days. We can now approach you directly and plead with you: "Please Mr Kaboeamodimo, unshackle our airwaves!"

We are equally emboldened now to approach His Excellency the President and to him make a bold and unequivocal call: "Here is a man who through his failure to represent the national diversity of opinions on national television and radio, and through his reckless decisions and statements threatens to drag in the mud the democratic credentials of our country.

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