Law firm clears Khama

| Thursday August 13, 2009 00:00

 

The BDP exists as a body and a political Party created by its Constitution. The Constitution gives executive and decision-making powers to the President as the Party leader as it does define the functions of other Party Organs and Structures, including the Central Committee.

As long-standing Party lawyers, we have reviewed all the decisions, steps and instances where His Excellency, the President, can exercise his power and discharge functions with regard to the affairs of the BDP after the Kanye National Congress.

We categorically pronounce for the record, that the President has acted, in each instance, in accordance with the BDP Constitution and within the confines, parameters and limits of the authority conferred upon him as the leader of the Party by the said Constitution.

We trust that this will bring an end to the unfortunate and unjustified personal attacks in open public, on His Excellency, the President, especially by certain members of his own Party. This has, in our view, done little credit to the BDP and to us as a country.

Finally, the BDP legal and administrative framework is, and has always been, well equipped to handle the resolution of internal diversions of opinion and differences without bringing the institution itself into derision. The current state of affairs should be no different.