When Seretse Khama Ian Khama stepped down from the Botswana presidency in 2018, he presented his successor, then Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi, to the nation in glowing terms confidently and emphatically telling the nation that Botswana would be in safe hands.
In a similar display of a rehearsed back-scratching, the incoming President Masisi assured the nation that former president Dr Khama would continue to play a crucial role in the daily affairs of the nation.
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