This is the best MP ever

The mischievous sport of grading the performance of MPs seems to have stopped but one would have wanted to find out how the current crop of MPs would fare. We would have been particularly interested in how the examiners graded Palapye MP, Onneetse Ramogapi, who, in our judgement, is the best MP ever.

The first most impressive thing about Honourable Ramogapi is that he doesn’t have a single discriminatory bone in his body. Other MPs discriminate against colours but he doesn’t. His constituency has people of all colours and so the MP sports all colours in his attire. Just so he doesn’t forget a single one of the wards in his constituency, the MP wears attire with enough colours to represent each and every one of the wards in that constituency. On pomp- and- ceremony occasions such as the state- of- the- nation and the budget speech, he has so much colour on him, he can designate separate colours for wards in his own constituency as well as those in the neighbouring constituencies of Lerala- Maunatlala, Serowe- North, Tonota and Mahalapye West. One supposes that this colour- coding works as a memory aid: when he looks at his suit, shirt and breast pocket and sees 12 colours, he immediately remembers those many wards ( as represented by those colours in his items of clothing) and the problems that those wards have.

In conclusion, we plead for mercy on behalf of the MP. The government will conduct a national population and housing census next year, which exercise is traditionally followed by a delimitation commission that often increases voting districts. We plead with the government to not increase Palapye wards because that would put additional pressure on Hon Ramogapi to colour- code.