{"id":21899,"date":"2023-02-11T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/ngos-want-bdf-budget-cut"},"modified":"2023-02-11T18:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T18:42:17","slug":"ngos-want-bdf-budget-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/ngos-want-bdf-budget-cut","title":{"rendered":"NGOs want BDF budget cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO), through \u201cThe People\u2019s Budget\u201d, their annual review of the Budget Speech has called for the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) budget to be trimmed by at least 10 percent, arguing that, \u201cOur priority should be pushing back forcefully against unemployment and poverty and strengthening our cyber-security.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rationale for the decision is simple. First, defence spending is not an investment. Second, Botswana\u2019s greatest national security risks do not come from hostile neighbours. Rather, they are socio-economic and cyber-related. Our priority should be pushing back forcefully against unemployment and poverty and strengthening our cyber-security,\u201d reads the NGOs mock budget.<\/p>\n<p>BOCONGO says though the Justice is no longer part of the Ministry, it saw its budget increase from P8, 525,435,320 in 2022\/23 to P9, 842,677,690, an increase of P1, 317,242,370.<\/p>\n<p>With a budget of P5, 747,892,350, the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) accounts for a 58.40% share of ear marked funds. The Botswana Police Service received P3,138,675,790 versus last year\u2019s P2,839,356,850. 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The Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO), through \u201cThe People\u2019s Budget\u201d, their annual review of the Budget Speech has called for the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) budget to be trimmed by at least 10 percent, arguing that, \u201cOur priority should be pushing back forcefully against unemployment and poverty and strengthening our cyber-security.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-21899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NGOs want BDF budget cut - 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