{"id":30815,"date":"2023-07-17T18:33:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims"},"modified":"2023-07-17T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:15:11","slug":"kario-dismisses-suspension-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims","title":{"rendered":"Kario Dismisses Suspension Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Secretary General of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Kavis Kario, has dismissed reports that he has been suspended from the party\u2019s Central Committee (CC) as false and baseless.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am still the Secretary General of the BDP,\u201d he told in an interview this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything and everything that you hear on social media about my suspension is false and utter nonsense. I do not know where such rumours might be coming from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very unfortunate that people can even lie to the extent of saying I have been removed from the CC WhatsApp group. I am still a BDP member in good standing and will not be disturbed by such rumours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Difference of opinion<\/p>\n<p>Media reports recently emerged that Kario had been suspended from the Central Committee of the BPD by President Mokgweetsi Masisi and removed from all CC communication platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Parliament last week, the MP for Maun East, Goretetse Kekgonegile of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), also said President Masisi had suspended Kario over a difference of opinion and leadership style.<\/p>\n<p>Kario became Secretary General at the elective congress of the BDP in Tsabong last year when he defeated former deputy secretary general Shaw Kgathi for the position.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to run in BDP primaries in Ngamiland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. The Secretary General of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Kavis Kario, has dismissed reports that he has been suspended from the party\u2019s Central Committee (CC) as false and baseless. \u201cI am still the Secretary General of the BDP,\u201d he told in an interview this week. \u201cAnything and everything that you hear on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":30814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-30815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>Kario Dismisses Suspension Claims - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Secretary General of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Kavis Kario, has dismissed reports that he has been sus ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kario Dismisses Suspension Claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Secretary General of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Kavis Kario, has dismissed reports that he has been sus ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-17T18:33:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-17T19:15:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/07\/sm_1689602642.436506.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"776\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"547\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kario Dismisses Suspension Claims\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-17T18:33:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-17T19:15:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims\"},\"wordCount\":230,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/07\/sm_1689602642.436506.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/kario-dismisses-suspension-claims\",\"name\":\"Kario Dismisses Suspension Claims - 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