BOPEU calls for more vaccine supplies and coherent rollout plan

COVID-19 Vaccine
COVID-19 Vaccine

As covid19 death toll climbed over 2000, the Botswana Public Employee Union(BOPEU) has urged Government to concentrate efforts in saving lives by way of procuring enough vaccines and further implement a realistic vaccination roll out plan in a bid to decongest the vaccination sites.

Botswana has experienced both slow arrivals of vaccines and incoherent rollout plan amidst alarming covid19 death toll, one of the worst in the world, in relation to the country’s small population.

Intervention by teachers Unions forced Government into the plan to vaccinate teachers after their trade unions made it clear no teacher would return to the classroom unless they had been vaccinated.

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The State apparatus must be sanitised

When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...

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