Masquerading journalists, BCP tarnish BPP :: Mmegi Online

For the past weeks, the media, and in particular, Mmegi, Echo, the Botswana Guardian and the Sunday Standard have been having a field day attempting to portray the Botswana People's Party (BPP) as an institution in terminal decline. The whirlwind of negative media publicity was orchestrated by Botswana Congress Party zealots in the respective of media houses masquerading as journalists. They did this at the behest of the B.C.P officials in the northern region. The said media outlets and the B.C.P shamelessly became accomplices in an orgy of lies.

They claimed that the B.P.P was falling apart as its Central Committee members were allegedly resigning en masse and joining the Botswana Democratic Party and the B.C.P Mmegi (8 September), added for good measure to the offensive by carrying a cartoon of a human being labeled "B.P.P" lying prostrate with vultures lurking about apparently waiting for a feast.

We hereby set the record straight. Only three out of a total 18 members of the Central Committee of the B.P.P have resigned from the party and joined other parties. Cornelius Gopolang resigned from the position of Secretary General citing financial problems and family commitments as major constraints on him. Later on, we learnt through the media that he had resigned from the party and had joined the B.D.P.

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