Africa-Press – Botswana. A week after his controversial ‘blow your brains’ speech, it looks like UDC leader, Duma Boko has pulled his political trigger.
The UDC NEC suspended its deputy, Dumelang Saleshando alongside Botswana Congress Party (BCP) secretary-general, Goretetse Kekgonegile last weekend in Palapye.
“We are in a position where one tries to sell the interests of Batswana and whoever Botswana National Front advocates for.
I will not hesitate to take a political gun, put it on your head and blow your brains out,” Boko blatantly revealed recently.
He said what he wants is revolutionary discipline.
Despite his statement that he intends to politically shoot his opponents, Boko maintains that he is not a dictator and that UDC has not given him powers to ‘dictate’.
He said all of the decisions are taken by the UDC NEC and they take that as a collective.
Saleshando, before he was suspended, was complaining about governance issues at the UDC and indicated that he had been left out on some of the major decisions at the party.
For his part, Boko said people who say he has been taking decisions on his own should outline every decision that he has taken alone.
He said UDC leaders have no right to tarnish the image of the coalition in the media and it is no wonder they decided to suspend Saleshando and Kekgonegile, pending a disciplinary hearing.
Explaining Boko’s ‘blow your brains’ speech to people who mistook his words to mean violence, the BNF spokesperson Justin Hunyepa told this publication that Boko used Ernesto Che Guevara’s military deeds to simply mean that political problems can be solved politically, just as military challenges are sorted militarily.
“In other words, you fight fire with fire.
Boko is a politician and thousands of people are looking up to him and the UDC to effect regime change and free Batswana from BDP corruption and mismanagement.
And that if anyone stands in the way of the people’s project, they must be politically destroyed the political way through political strategies.
For instance, several opposition parties have since been swallowed to ‘death’ by other political parties and they are no more.
These opposition parties were brought in and at point-blank were politically shot, or swallowed up, completely eliminating them.
Shooting with a political gun is an English allegory which, in Boko’s context, does not mean military gun powder,” Hunyepa explained.
He added that Che Guevara was a military strategist and also trained in guerilla warfare tactics.
Hunyepa said Boko has never even handled a toy gun.
“Boko uses Che’s military precision to describe a political situation where discipline and trust are very important, especially when you are under the people’s mandate.
Boko spoke very rich and deep English on that day and anyone who talks of extra-judicial killing is just being nonsensical,” he said.
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