These Khama times are weird and bad indeed

Mr Editor, The gods must be Crazy or are these signs of a doomed BDP regime. Contrary to loathsome adulation for his publicity gimmicks and a populist cult of self-adoration by blind admirers, President Khama has done nothing significant since he has ascended or climbed to power.

He has conceptualized 1st Victorian Montgomery's military style of MWA -  'management by wondering around' the country to magnify his populist cult of adoration. For over a 100 days or so, the new president of the Republic of Botswana has drafted "a chronology of insignificant events that will eventually lead to the downfall of the economy of Botswana". A fitting epitaph indeed.

All these instructions and directives bearing intriguing ideas and initiatives given on short notice are ingredients for a disaster. These are incompatible and unsustainable and are simply meant to buy cheap votes. This is electoral vote chicanery in its most distasteful form. The BDP government is like a corpse that is severely traumatized and disfigured by a deadly disease caused by a strange virus. Here is a mortuary in vain to embalm the remains of a dead body. So traumatized and disfigured by a very strange viral disease. Surely, the much loathed and revered magic wand played at the sleight of a hand is going to fade soon. All these initiatives in the long run aren't going to be sustainable as they have their own limitations. Wayback 1994 to date, the BDP government has created a vicious cycle of economic impoverishment through tentative citizen economic empowerment programmes. All these programmes at first created envy amongst Batswana but ultimately did the citizens of this country a lot of disgrace, embarrassments, self pity and exposure to ridicule and gossips about failure. What the doomed BDP regime is good at is massive hemorrhage of financial resources to buy votes. They came out with tentative citizen economic impoverishment programmes [passively called empowerment] only to make the prospective Batswana entrepreneurs a societal ridicule, scorn and tease for failure in business.

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