20 May 2021

The President, Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi, says government will stop at nothing to procure enough COVID-19 vaccines for the nation.

He was speaking in Khonkhwa in the Southern District, where he had gone to pay his condolences to the family of Kgosi Kose Kebuang who succumbed to the pandemic last month.

President Masisi said government was so serious about saving lives such that it would not even hesitate to halt some development projects if necessary, adding that the country was expecting more doses by the end of this month.

“We are also willing to procure the much sort after Pfizer and Modena vaccines since they would enable us to vaccine children from 12 years upwards. This will come handy because the country’s economy has been hard hit by the pandemic and therefore in need of all its citizens to be active and restore it,” he said.

He also urged Batswana to abide by the COVID-19 protocols until it was proven safe to abandon them. 

President Masisi also hailed Kgosi Kebuang for his 32 years of good service to the community and the country.

“Through his 32 years of service to his community, he worked with many national leaders and he surely left a string of good deeds that those of you who are left behind should emulate so that his works would not be in vain,” he said.

President Masisi said since Kgosi Kebuang worked with many people around him, the seeds that he planted in them should start being visible through them as they carry on his legacy.

“You should not degrade what he achieved and represented. Even though he lived a long life, a lot was still expected of him hasd in not been for COVID 19 to cut him short,” he said of Kgosi Kebuang who died at the age of 75.

President Masisi also visited Keng to pay his last respects to the family of Kgosi Keagolotse Phaladi, who also succumbed to COVID-19 just two days after Kgosi Kebuang.

Kgosi Phaladi, who died at 63 years after serving his community for 25 years, was hailed by President Masisi as a good public servant who still had a chance to serve were it not for his untimely death.

President Masisi, who was accompanied by the First Lady, Ms Neo Masisi, said it was only right that he came to pay his last respects because the loss of a kgosi was not a loss to just his family, but the community and the country at large.

He therefore appreciated his family for availing him to be a servant of his community, a job that he said was one of the most challenging since one faced a lot of societal challenges. ENDS