BCP vows to change government this year
Botswana Congress Party (BCP) has got what it takes to change government in this country and it will do so, come October this year, party president Dumelang Saleshando has told the people of Shashe West constituency.
The BCP leader was launching the party parliamentary candidate for Shashe-Mooke, Oganne Mazwigwila together with his nine council candidates at Mathangwane village on Sunday. Botswana is going to its 11th polls this year. “We are on our way to changing government in the upcoming election this year. When you look at circumstances occasioned by the stagnant economy, education, among other things, you will agree with me that the situation demands that we change government immediately,” the BCP leader told the rally before launching Mazwigwila. The BCP leader, who described Mazwigwila as the aeroplane of life, promised voters that if elected, the candidate would uplift their lives the same way an aeroplane does to its passengers. The BCP leader, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Maun West, paraded Mazwigwila, a former teacher. Saleshando noted that as long as the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is in power, there will always be shortage of jobs because the ruling party exports jobs to countries such as South Africa who get raw materials instead of finished goods and create jobs for their unemployed. “Our circumstances will change only if we bring a new government. Under the BDP, the country sends our raw materials such as copper to other countries while we remain unemployed,” Saleshando lamented, pledging that under the BCP, there would be jobs for all. Saleshando emphasised the need for the country to replace Ipelegeng with real jobs. According to him, the importance of land demands that it be looked after by trained administrators. “Should the BDP win just one more time, Botswana will be in trouble,” Saleshando warned and called upon the nation to use this year’s general elections as the opportunity to change government.
MP for Okavango, Caterpillar Hikuama, poured cold water on government empowerment programmes suggesting that they do not have a history of achieving what they had been intended to achieve. He was saying this on the backdrop of government recently introducing the Chema Chema fund intended to boost the informal sector players. Hikuama pledged that a BCP government would rather improve education so that the people are empowered enough to self-sustain than depend on such programmes. “The high unemployment levels are aggravated by the poor quality education we give to our children. We cannot fight unemployment with the current education system,” Hikuama said. For the parliamentary candidate, Mazwigwila, the people of Jamataka should not vote the BDP because it discriminates them. He appealed to voters to change and vote for the opposition for the first time.
“They are neglected yet they have always voted the ruling party,” the parliamentary candidate regretted.