Wynter Mmolotsi should be the last person to complain about Khama’s dictatorial tendencies During the BCP’s just ended National Conference, I had time to chat with Vain Mamela about Wynter Mmolotsi’s cry over Khama’s walkabout and dictatorial tendencies as displayed in Francistown South over the past few days. Both of us were in agreement that Wynter Mmolotsi is the last person to complain about Khama’s dictatorial tendencies because he has failed to listen to Vain Mamela and BCP prior 2009 elections. We both agreed that Wynter Mmolotsi should now taste the bitterness of his own medicine, his own creation. Vain Mamela and BCP warned as follows prior to 2009 elections, and Wynter Mmolotsi went on to oppose the BCP and made Khama President of Botswana in addition to extending BDP’s rule. Mamela’s BCP warned Wynter as follows; ‘‘The 2009 elections will be yet another great opportunity for people to use both their judgement and common sense to decide their future and that of their children. Our nation is clearly at a crossroad. We have a choice to vote BDP and allow for further deterioration of democracy, human rights and the possible collapse of the economy. The alternative is to vote for the protection of democracy and prosperity and security of our nation under the government of the Botswana Alliance Movement and Botswana Congress Party. In realizing the desperate situation of our country, the two parties have decided to work together to save the nation from the impending national catastrophe. The selfish decision of the BDP to retain state power against all odds led them to bring Ian Khama and senior military leaders into politics. Today, this BDP experiment with a military junta has proved, within a short period of time, to be against what Batswana stand for. Our known history of peaceful co-existence, freedom, participatory democracy and respect for the pillars of democracy are fast fading away. Our nation is gripped with fear. The business community is uneasy with the unpredictable and uninformed policies that are dreamt and championed by one person. The ordinary citizen cannot freely walk in the streets because of fear of losing life, not from the criminals, but from agents of the state. The space for freedom of expression is fast shrinking. Families and friends can no longer converse freely. Everyone suspects the other for being part of the feared network of security agents. Politicians from both within and outside the BDP live in fear. They are ever guarded fearing to offend the top man and suffer the consequences from the military junta. As for the economy, it is headed for collapse. No imaginative strategies are in place to expand the industrial base and create jobs. Diversification has failed as the economy remains heavily dependent on diamonds. The potential for the manufacturing and tourism sectors is being squandered by the BDP. Commerce and industry remain incompetent. The result is high levels of poverty, unemployment and inequalities. As the global recession rears its ugly head, the structural weaknesses of our economy are being exposed. There are no alternative sources of revenue generation, hence an unsustainable dependence on foreign reserves for development and recurrent expenditure. A dark cloud is fast approaching. Let’s destroy it before it destroys us. If we fail to act, the consequences are scary: this democracy will go up in flames and our children will inherit a ruined country almost in a state similar to that of our neighbours in the north. If in October we give Khama a yes vote, we would not have stopped this dictatorship and economic ruin. We would be surely headed for kidnappings, disappearances of political opponents and critics, both within the BDP and in the opposition parties, and the civil society. The media will be suppressed and journalists imprisoned. Jobless queues will increase and poverty will reach scandalous levels. Corruption and economic mismanagement will escalate and our economy will collapse. We owe it to our children, our pride and the wisdom of our forbearers to protect our nation by voting for BAM-BCP in the general elections. A nation united, putting aside petty political differences and putting the country first, can never be defeated. We appeal to all persons of goodwill, in all parties, to take advantage of the secrecy of the ballot and bring change to this country. We call upon all citizens to rally behind our cooperating parties through your votes.’’ Gilson Saleshando Presidential Candidate (BAM-BCP) Wynter Mmolotsi and many others have created a ‘Monster’ in Nasha’s own words and now it is their time to face their own creation. They have no right to nag the BCP to become part of an unreliable creation, an Umbrella, which is Johnson Motshwarakgole and Daniel Kwelagobe’s own project.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:58:49 +0000
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