24 Sep 2014

Vice President Dr Ponatshego Kedikilwe has urged residents of Gaborone Bonnington South to vote for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) parliamentary candidate Mr Botsalo Ntuane and six council hopefuls in the forthcoming October 24 general elections.

Dr Kedikilwe who was launching Mr Ntuane and six council candidates said by voting them, the voters would be moving Botswana forward as the candidates always advocated for citizen welfare.

He said during his last five year tenure in Parliament, Mr Ntuane was always pressing on issues that affected the community in Gaborone Bonnington South such as poor roads, street lights, sanitation and storm water drainage.

Dr Kedikilwe noted that some of the developments that were taking place in their area came about as a result of Mr Ntuane’s persistent calls for those developments to be implemented adding that by voting him, they would be giving him and his councillors a mandate to ensure that their lives were improved.

On other issues, Dr Kedikilwe urged residents to vote in large numbers and not to be lazy on polling day as this would give opposition members a chance to vote their candidates to Parliament.

He advised party members to ensure that their identity cards and registration cards were kept safe and told them that they should never allow anyone to keep their cards on their behalf as those people might be opponents who would hide the cards in an effort to prevent them from voting.

Dr Kedikilwe also advised party members to ensure that their identity cards were valid and collected from the national registration offices.

On other issues he told residents of Bonnington South that petrol, diesel, oil and their byproducts were essential in the growing of the economy as such the government was planning to build the petrol reserves at Tshele Hill near Rasesa to the tune of P750 million.

On the issue of public service employees, Dr Kedikilwe noted that there was a salary increase in 2011 and 2014 of three per cent and four per cent respectively.

Another speaker at the launch, parliamentary candidate for Shashe West Mr Fidelis Molao said the fact that Mr Ntuane did not stand for election at Nata-Gweta constituency showed that he loved and had a vision for people of Gaborone Bonnington South.

On the other hand, Ms Dorcas Makgato-Malesu told the gathering that some people did not want to see BDP members happy as such they tried by all means to tarnish the good name of the ruling party. Ends