Inside the BNF house

The dust started hitting the fan at the emergency central committee meeting on Saturday at the Kagisong Centre. Part of Moupo's agenda at the tryst was to announce his plans to summon an emergency party congress. Most of the 17 people who attended confirm that the president merely announced that he had decided to call a special congress. There was no vote. Some debated around the table, but it was nothing to change an executive decision made by the president.

"Of course many of the comrades differed and tried to show him that a special congress was not necessary. But this proved to be an academic exercise because Moupo came to the meeting merely to make an announcement not to entertain any vote or discussion," said BNF secretary general Akanyang Magama adding that only the central committee or two thirds majority of the constituencies can call a special congress.