Mmui remains defiant after rowdy meeting
Thursday, July 25, 2013
"I am wondering why people disrupted the meeting. We don't know why the meeting was disrupted. If you disagreed, you could seek clarification," he told Mmegi Sport yesterday. He maintains that he is empowered by the club's constitution to call meetings. The Saturday meeting was abandoned when things went out of control and police were summoned to deal with a punch-up between supporters from rival factions.
It is said that Mmui belongs to a lobby in the club that is advocating that certain issues should be ironed out before one of the country's biggest clubs is privatised. The faction does not support the manner in which the supposed privatisation is being undertaken. The group that disrupted the meeting supports privatisation.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...