Lands Ministry accused of defying Boko’s Bonno project

Last year, Boko launched the Bonno Housing Project at Palapye, tailor-made to provide housing to Batswana across 61 constituencies. He set himself and the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) a target of 61,000 houses. This was against their manifesto target of 100,000 houses in five years.

As the ministry appeared before the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday, Phologolo accused the portfolio ministry responsible for issuing title deeds of disrupting the roll-out of this project. ‘The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds’.- Abraham LincolnUntil then, the Council’s operations remain suspended, delaying critical decisions affecting thousands of public sector employees.The current standoff is between the Manual Workers Union on one side and the Six Cooperating Trade Unions, namely BONU, BOPEU, BTU, BDU, BOSETU and…