Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) has continued with their mass water disconnection of unpaid domestic bills in Maun ignoring a request by the Maun East Member of Parliament, Goretetse Kekgonegile for the exercise to be postponed. Kekgonegile had prior the exercise engaged with Land Management, Water and Sanitation Service Minister, Kefentse Mzwinila pleading with him to order WUC to postponed the exercise at least until June. Kekgonegile argued that Maun people are currently under a huge stressful water shortage situation so they cannot afford to pay WUC water bills and buy water for domestic use at the same time. In a follow-up interview Kekgonegile said he is surprised and disappointed that the corporation has continued with the disconnection even after the Minister had agreed and assured him that he will talk with WUC for them to postpone the disconnection. The Maun WUC Water Superintendent Molaodi Dikgang has however indicated that they have not yet received any official communication from their superiors concerning Kekgonegile’s plea hence they are continuing with the exercise. “Whilst the decision has not been taken concerning his request we will continue executing what we have been tasked to do,” Dikgang told this publication on the sideline of the…