Boko dismisses Masisi and the BDP
President of Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), also Member of Parliament for Gaborone Bonnington North Duma Boko has called on government to be more transparent in its approach to make Botswana a better place for its citizens. Addressing the media in Gaborone this week, Boko outlined pertinent issues – among them massive unemployment rate, deteriorating education standards and below standard health care systems – which he said have not been addressed by the current regime. Boko said Botswana faces systemic problems that cannot be addressed by just changing faces of personnel while the systems that have “brought us where we are today are still in play.” He said the ascendance of President Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi to the highest office has not paid dividends, because almost every Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) leader is complicit in the matter of denying “our country to move forth.” He said an authentic change in government is needed. “When we assume power in the next few months, we will assess all institutions in efforts to create a true democracy as we will be creating credible institutions that can fight corruption better,” he said. He said that although none of the UDC members and officials are implicated in some of the criminal cases that have been making strides such as the National Petroleum Fund (NPF), they are going to call all those who are involved to at least return what they have stolen from the country if they have embezzled the funds. Boko said the UDC is against journalists being called and fed inexplicable statistics as the president routinely does, but instead said his party favours a detailed cost and benefit analysis by the President or any organ of the state or an accurate value of what the nation is in need of moving forward,” he said.