14th March 2014 BCP Gaborone Youth Region Press Release RE-ONGOING BCP CAMPAIGN/PETITION To Demand the Provision of Electricity and Water in Gaborone and Countrywide The Botswana Congress Party Gaborone Youth Region has from Tuesday 11th March 2014 embarked on an awareness campaign which is meant to pressurise the ruling BDP government to address the current electricity and water shortage supply to Batswana in Gaborone and countrywide. The awareness campaign is spearheaded by the BCP youth in Gaborone and will be coordinated to include other areas countrywide as the electricity and water supply affects not only those in Gaborone but all other parts of the country. Currently, the objectives of the awareness campaign is to raise as many names as possible through the members of the public signing of petition forms to show support to BCP demand for the provision of electricity and water to every household. Raising as many names as possible from Batswana will ultimately put pressure on the ruling BDP to address the problem genuinely, the more the numbers of the people who have signed the BCP petition forms, the more the ruling BDP will see that many Batswana are concerned about the electricity and water supply shortage. The awareness campaign and the signing of the BCP petition forms by members of the public will continue until such a time when the Gaborone Youth region leadership will decide the next step which will be to forward the demands from the petition to the relevant authorities. No date has been set to forward the demands in the petition so far but a date will be set. The priority now is to raise as much awareness as possible by calling on all Batswana to sign the BCP petition forms. The BCP Gaborone youth region is availing petition forms to BCP structures countrywide and other potential signing public spots will be established as the campaign goes on. If need be, the forms will be available at every public place, it be post office, supermarket, bus stops, railway stops, churches, factories, workplaces, malls and other places where people can easily sign. Those willing to help with the distribution and collection of forms are asked to approach the relevant BCP structures. The office figures of people who have signed the BCP petition forms in demand of electricity and water provision are as follows 1. Tuesday 11th March 2014: 146 people 2. Wednesday 12th March 2014: 432 people 3. Thursday 13th March 2014: 245 people 4. Friday 14th March 2014: Registration ongoing The total figure registered as at the end of Thursday 13th March being 823 people! So far 823 people who have registered the BCP forms for the petition are those residing in Gaborone area. Forms are still being distributed to other parts of the country to e other members of the public register. For more information or media interviews, kindly contact Gaborone Region Youth Secretary Kenneth Nelson at 73613469. Kenneth Nelson BCP Gaborone Youth Region Secretary 73613469
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 00:29:12 +0000