The Minister of Infrastructure, Science and Technology, Johnny Swartz, this week rebutted suggestions the newly adopted Botswana Innovation Hub would sideline Batswana inhabiting in the rural areas, arguing the move to design the institution was premised to create employment and development of skills, which would play a pivotal role to the livelihood of Batswana, including those in the rural areas.
Endorsed in the previous sitting last November, the Hub is expected to accelerate economic diversification as well as create more employment opportunities to increase productivity but there remained suspicions the initiative would discriminate, affording opportunities to the Batswana living in urban areas while those living in the rural areas would be left in the lurch.
However, answering a question in parliament Tuesday, Swartz discarded such assertions, insisting that the government, through the initiative, anticipates “employment and skills development would be the major outcomes which would benefit our people”.
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