Just dissolve BNYC

When it was established in 1974, through an Act of Parliament, the main objective of the Botswana National Youth Council (BNYC) was to facilitate, coordinate and implement youth-focused activities.

The Act also gives the organisation’s responsibility for lobbying and advocating for development policies affecting youth as well as ‘to give advise to government on matters relating to youth development’.

This BNYC, however, has evolved into one bloody animal that has milked this country’s resources without giving back any results. This organisation has been nothing but a source of distress for civil servants, and the nation. For the four decades it has been in around, BNYC has never enjoyed stability for it to deserve to be a government-funded organisation.

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