09 Sep 2024

 Prospective parliamentary candidates for Boteti East Constituency took the stage on Friday during the ongoing Radio Botswana debate programme to lure voters.

Botswana Patriotic Front(BPF)’s prospective parliamentary candidate Mr Lebonaamang Mokalake said his party believed that people should be provided with high quality service.

He said BPF’s aim was to change the education policy, by moving teachers from Department of Public Service Management to Teachers Service Management, indicating that it was crucial to improve the quality of education and enhance the welfare of teachers.

He said that he would ensure that Boteti was supplied with good quality water. 

BPF plan, he said was to expand Orapa Park, stating that tourism was not all about game tours.

Umbrella for Democratic Change’s prospective parliamentary candidate Mr Keoagile Atamelang said if voted into power his party would establish a mining company that could compete with local mining companies.

He said that the aim was develop a beneficiation law, whereby areas where diamonds were mined could have their benefit.

Botswana Congress Party(BCP)’s Ms Daisy Bathusi, said they believed that it was government’s role to create and secure job opportunities for its people.

Ms Bathusi said they would establish government agencies that would focus on helping people to find jobs. She said BCP would ensure that each family had at least one person employed, adding that the unemployed would be given an allowance of P600 per month.

Ms Bathusi said BCP aims to establish an economy where people would be equipped with technical skills.

Mr Sethomo Lelatisitswe of  said Botswana Democratic Party said his party had introduced digitilisation programme to transform the country towards a knowledge based economy and transition to a high income status by 2036.

The BDP led government, he said, had introduced programmes like Chemachema, Temo-letlotlo and Thuo-Letlotlo to empower and uplift the livelihoods of Batswana.

He said the aim of the BDP was to ensure that there was good working relations between government and private sector in order to significantly impact lives.

Mr Lelatisitswe said the intention was to establish a state of the art district hospital to ease congestion in the local health facilities. ends