BDP regime spent P167.7m on 100,000 plots

Responding to questions from Molepolole North Member of Parliament (MP) Arafat Khan, the acting Minister of Lands and Agriculture Edwin Dikoloti laid bare the costs behind the headline-grabbing programme initiated in 2022. “In order to meet the requirements of the Botswana Land Policy of 2019, which provides that plots should be allocated after survey, the then Ministry of Lands and Water Affairs, in August 2022, floated a tender for the survey and examination of the records,” Dikoloti told Parliament. The statement, whilst some may say, comes a little bit too late, is timely as gender-based violence (GBV) continues to haunt the country.

A week hardly passes without reports of a wife, a girlfriend or boyfriend being killed by their intimate partners. Just recently, a high-ranking officer stationed at Glen Valley Barracks reportedly murdered his wife and has so far managed to evade arrest. It is also alleged that another soldier murdered his…