DECEPTION IS A SPIRIT.
In reflection and with deep introspection, I write this not with bitterness but with clarity, experience, and the lessons gained from a chapter that has come to its natural end. In the past week, I have come to understand profoundly that power, when not anchored in purpose and humility, can indeed corrupt. It has the potential to derail noble visions, distort truth, and transform ambition into a theatre of failure. As I have observed the recent dissolution of Prime Promotions Botswana (PPB), I am neither surprised nor discouraged. What transpired was long foretold and spiritually discerned.
From October 2024 to April 2025, we found ourselves trapped in a cycle of endless meetings at the Botswana Chamber of Mines (BCM)—gathering not to execute projects, not to empower farmers, not to scale agro-processing or value chains, but to argue over titles, positions, signatures, and control. The real work was ignored in pursuit of illusions of power. Lawyers were summoned, not to legalize progress, but to legitimize division. What was supposed to be a vehicle for agricultural transformation turned into a courtroom of egos.
Meanwhile, outside the walls of the boardroom, real work was taking place.
Hunter’s Global Network, in partnership with Farmer’s Pride International and Uphopia Farms, continued moving forward with practical projects on the ground—training farmers, forming clusters, building drying hubs, securing export markets, and facilitating innovation through the Rural and Urban Agriculture Innovative Production Program (RUAIPP). As others debated titles, we were digging trenches, erecting structures, and harvesting hope.
We were not caught off-guard by what unfolded. Weeks before the unfortunate events, we were spiritually forewarned by prophetic counsel—our mentors and spiritual fathers—who told us: "This initiative called PPB is merely a name at CIPA. Take caution. It is going nowhere unless those around it change their hearts." Sadly, their warning became reality.
How can agriculture, a sacred endeavor of feeding nations, thrive when controlled by individuals more concerned with hierarchy than harvests?
How do you build sustainability from boardrooms without people in the field?
How do you mobilize national transformation through deception, manipulation, and personal ambition?
It is a national tragedy and a personal disappointment that PPB became nothing more than a paper—a stressful, short-lived project that wasted our time, energy, and vision. To those who sat in a boardroom, manufactured lies, and held an unconstitutional meeting to bury a vision, you have taught us one lesson: Agriculture will never succeed in any country where greed and power-lust are the foundation.
To my fellow leaders and partners in progress: this has been a sobering experience. But we will not be derailed. Hunter’s Global Network, Farmer’s Pride International, and Uphopia Farms are still standing, still working, and still delivering. The exit of Prime Promotions Botswana from our lives is not a death but a deliverance. The falsehoods now being peddled by some former board members are expected—because truth has a way of provoking the insecure.
To 3 PPB musketeers, we thank you. This experience, though disappointing, was not in vain. Through you, we learned what to avoid in future partnerships. We saw firsthand how not to build organizations. We appreciate the lesson, and we bid you peace.
As we look to the future, we do so with renewed purpose and spiritual grounding. We walk into our calling knowing fully well that those who work sincerely, those who till the land and serve the people, will always rise beyond boardroom politics and egotistical sabotage.
Happy Easter to all who still believe in purpose over politics, in unity over titles, and in work over words. May we all grow from this.
Written by:
Hunter – Executive President
Hunter’s Global Network PTY LTD, Prime Promotions PTY LTD (Dissolved), & Farmer’s Pride International
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