Boko awakens sleeping BNF giant
‘ BNF My Future My Vision’ recruitment drive launched
Botswana National Front ( BNF) President Advocate Duma Boko has challenged the party membership to shift from defending the party only when there is a crisis but to do it all the time.
He said defending the party and being active when there is a crisis is both a strength and a crisis, challenging members to change their behaviour and be active all the time to defend the party and lure new members.
“We alter our behaviour when there is a crisis. This has to end today. We want robust defence and activism at all times. Let us not wait for crisis. Let us be on red alert all the time to defend the organisation.
“Wherever you are, you must own the organisation. BNF is alive and kicking. We are the biggest organisation in this country and we have to lead by example,” Advocate Boko said this week in Gaborone when launching the BNF Recruitment Drive under the theme, ‘ BNF My Future My Vision’.
According to Boko party members should own the future and vision so that they are able to preach it to other people. He said they are reviving the
BNF in a special way.
“We are going to engage in dialectical interplay,” said the BNF leader who is also President of Umbrella for Democratic Change ( UDC), adding that if one does not know the BNF, the party can confuse them.
“You can write it off and write its political obituary. But when it rises it will shock you in many ways. We are launching my future my vision.
“Do we know and understand what we are talking about here? It means it is now personal. It must speak to you personally in your private space. You must own it and play a part in realisation of that future. We are taking everyone on board,” he explained.
The BNF President stated that the recruitment theme must speak to the issues that affect the masses. He said the party members should have a connection with the theme in order to grow the party’s membership.
He pointed out that having a connection with the theme will assist the members in the preaching of the ideals and policies of the movement.
“BNF is an amazing organisation. You will think it is no more, it is weak and would not bounce back. But there are times it will surprise you and rise to the occasion.
“When it is confronted with a situation that threatens it, that is when you will know this giant. It has happened so many times even before I was its leader.
“Its leaders and its people know it better. BNF is an honest organisation. It always acts in utmost good faith. We are a sleeping giant and the giant wakes up now.
“The giant stands tall and will dictate the pace of our politics. We are fighters and make no mistake about it. We are beginning to assert ourselves,” Boko said.
He challenged BNF members to be ambassadors of the party at all times even at their places of work. He said this will even lure people to join the BNF without recruiting them.
He indicated that ambassadors and models represent a particular behaviour. The party, he said, should focus on the youth and represent the aspiration of young people.
“Young people are aspirational, so when you represent and present yourself to them be mindful of their aspiration and the diction and the register must respond to their aspirations,” he added.