BCP 2014 Manifesto Draft Final

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Eliminating Corruption The BCP aims to pursue zero tolerance for corruption. In this regard we shall: • Undertake a comprehensive review of all relevant legislation dealing with and/or linked to corruption, including – but not limited to – the Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, the Finance and Audit Act, the Public Service Act, the Police Act, The Ombudsman Act, the Corruption and Economic Crime Act and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act. • Enact, as a matter of urgency, the Freedom of Information Act, Disclosure of Assets and Liabilities, Conflict of Interest and Insider Trading; • Make the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime truly independent by reporting directly to Parliament; • Establish a special parliamentary committee on anti – corruption to monitor the work of the Directorate; • Expand the Directorate and provide it with the necessary professional mix that can meet the demands of its job; • Introduce a system of Declaration of Assets and Liabilities by senior civil servants, Chief Executives of parastatal organizations, judicial officers and Members of Parliament. • Introduce a law to prohibit political and public officers from participating in decision making processes where their interests or those of their immediate relatives are involved (conflict of interest). Combatting Crime and ensuring safety for all The BCP shall; • Ensure that the Police Service does not become the old Police Force by excluding soldiers from policing duties. • Increase the budget for the Police Service in order to increase its capacity to meet the challenges of law enforcement. • Increase the budget of the Prison Service to improve the welfare of offices and review the salary structure to align it with that of the Police Service. • Improve the working conditions of all the security forces to retain qualified and quality staff and avoid a corrupt force. • Allow for collective bargaining on conditions of service for the security sector. 30 READY TO LEAD BCP 2014-2019 MANIFESTO
• Develop schemes to divert juvenile offenders from crime and provide them with more rehabilitative environment away from hard core and regular offenders. • Reduce overcrowding in Prisons by encouraging community sentencing and other alternatives to prison. • Wage war on drug trafficking by strengthening the capacity of the Police and Customs and Excise to prevent drugs from coming into Botswana. Enhancing Decentralisation to Promote Universal Access to Services The BCP believes that effective development must be anchored on a decentralized system to allow for the voices of the people to inform planning and service delivery. To this end, the BCP government shall: • Entrenching local government as a second tier of government in the constitution. • Empowering local authorities to expand their revenue generating opportunities and reduce their reliance on central government for financial support. Councils will be empowered to decide on their recurrent and developmental budgets. • Carry out an extensive review for all government departments to identify services that will be more efficiently delivered by local authorities in line with our policy of decentralization. • Introduce a policy of executive chairpersons or mayors with powers to run their districts/towns. • Creating efficient local government authorities by re-demarcating some of the existing sub-districts into fully fledged districts. • Enhancing efficiency of local government by strengthening their capacity to attract and retain appropriately skilled personnel. • Expand the mandate of local authorities to cover the provision of primary health care while the Ministry of Health focuses on policy formulation. • Position local authorities to promote procurement of goods and services from businesses within their locality with a strong bias towards citizen owned companies READY TO LEAD BCP 2014-2019 MANIFESTO 31
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