Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and Botswana National Front (BNF) president Duma Gideon Boko has dismissed suggestions his coalition party is the reason behind the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) split. Dismissing any wrongdoing on the part of the UDC in dealing with the BMD problems, Boko said the party had a long running cancer. “We called the then BMD president (Ndaba Gaolathe) on several occasions in a bid to understand the quandary that was purportedly bedeviling the BMD. But he was always professing the party’s good health,” said Boko when addressing UDC members in Francistown last Thursday. UDC leadership is currently on a countrywide tour to set the record straight on BMD issues. Boko was personally accused of being biased towards either of the then BMD factions, depending on which side the accuser was. Gaolathe was leading the other faction while the current BMD president Advocate Sydney Pilane led another. “BMD’s internal troubles ended up in the catastrophic strife and bloodbath that transpired at Matshekge Senior Secondary School in July this year,” explained Boko in reference to the ugly incidents which transpired in Bobonong during the BMD congress in July. Following the clashes between members, the then Gaolathe led…