Former MP Oteng burial Saturday

RAMOTSWA - South East former Member of Parliament and former Assistant Minister, Mr Geoffrey Oteng will be buried on Saturday in Ramotswa.
He died last week Thursday at the Gaborone Private Hospital after a short illness.
According to a member of the family, Mrs Masisi Lekaukau, Mr Oteng, who was born in 1931, was admitted at the Johannesburg hospital last year October for two weeks and later discharged. She said he used to be a jolly and healthy man.
Mr Oteng started his primary education at the Bamalete National School in 1947 and proceeded to St Joseph's College for his secondary education. He completed his Primary High teachers' certificate in 1952 and taught in several schools including St Theresa primary in Lobatse during which time he did his Matriculation certificate by correspondence.
Mr Oteng also taught at Empandeni Secondary School in Zimbabwe and in 1961 he came back to teach at St Conrad's primary school in Ramotswa.
In 1964, Mr Oteng joined the civil service as a cooperative officer, during which time he did a two-year course in cooperatives management and audit at Loughborough in England.
In 1973 he was appointed Commissioner of Cooperatives and retired in 1979 for active politics.
He became the first Member of Parliament for the then Ramotswa constituency in 1979 and served in various Parliamentary committees. He also represented Botswana at several meetings outside the country.
As an MP, Mr Oteng was appointed a member of the Immigration Selection Board, a member of the Citizenship Board and a member of the Sir Seretse Khama Memorial Fund.
In 1985 he was appointed the Assistant Minister of Agriculture and later he became the Assistant Minister of the then Local government, Lands and Housing.
After the 1994 general elections, he became MP for the newly established South East constituency, which included Ramotswa and Tlokweng. He retired from active politics in 1999 to concentrate on business until his death. BOPA