Representing a constituency that houses the heartbeat of the economy - tourism, and the most lucrative soils in the Chobe Enclave - has stacked the odds against youthful MP Machana Ronald Shamukuni. But the soft-spoken Kasane native, who entered Parliament in October 2014 under a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) ticket, is not shaken by the mammoth task ahead and a plethora of challenges facing his people. He is quick to reveal that his constituency is among the least developed, ravaged by poverty, lack of opportunities, shortage of serviced land and a human-wildlife conflict that is degenerating into a crisis. At the 2014 polls Shamukuni garnered 4, 114 votes to defeat the then MP Gibson Nshimwe of Botswana Congress Party (BCP) who only managed 3, 166, a win margin of 948 from a percentage poll of 82.03%. With only seven wards the Chobe District Council is by far the smallest, alongside Jwaneng township. It is made up of Kasane Plateau, Kasane Central, Chobe Enclave East and West, Pandamatenga, Old Kazungula-Lesoma and Kazungula New Stance - won by Abraham Sitali of BCP. On his way to victory Shamukuni could have been aided by the absence of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC)…