source: Mmegi
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer
The cabinet has ordered the Botswana National Youth Council (BNYC) to immediately stop the national debates for candidates in the 2009 general elections. BNYC director, Anthony Morima said that they received the order through the Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture, Gladys Kokorwe yesterday afternoon following a cabinet meeting. The order was delivered when a BNYC team, led by Morima, was on its way to Francistown for one of the debates.
“We had to obey and turn around and come back to Gaborone. We exist through the 1974 presidential directive and are funded by government. So when the minister (Kokorwe) says stop the debate, we have to do so. You should know that though we have not been acting like an NGO. We are in fact under government,” he said.
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