BDP ward committee wants their candidate recalled

Onalenna Kelebeile | Tuesday September 9, 2014 11:29

 

The decision was taken during an urgent committee meeting that was held last month to discuss allegations that the council candidate breached a contract with Mmadinare Development Trust and unlawfully receiving P22 980. The two parties had entered into an agreement for Masweu to develop a strategic plan for the Trust. According to the minutes of the said meeting that Mmegi is in possession of, the ward committee had an opportunity to look into the contract that its candidate and Trust entered into and also considered the possibility of Masweu facing a legal action.

The committee, according to the minutes, also considered that the Trust’s board of directors and Mmadinare community were agitated over the issue hence the ward committee was convinced that Masweu must clear his name first.  “It is clear that Masweu dragged the party name in the mud hence recommends that he clears his name before he could contest the general elections,” reads the minutes.

The committee further states that  Masweu has labeled them deadwoods and that he appointed himself a campaign team within the same committee and that he does not have a good working relationship with them.

It further states that on several occasions he collected contributions during party members’ funerals under the party name without consultation with the committee. “No report was made to the committee and no money was presented to the committee. The committee has since realised that the money never reached its intended owners,” read the minutes in part.

Mmadinare branch chairman Motlamorago Gaseitsiwe declined to clarify the matter. “I do not have any information. There is no problem here as far as I am concerned,” he said.

All Masweu  could offer as a response is that nobody has engaged him on the matter.

BDP executive secretary Sechele Sechele said the party is not aware of the issue as no official correspondence has reached the central committee.

Meanwhile Mmadinare Development Trust attorneys have served Masweu with papers demanding that he settle the sum of P13 950 within seven days failure of which the matter will be escalated with the courts. The letter states that owing to the level of disinterest and lackadaisical conduct on Masweu’s part,  the Trust has decided to terminate the contract and claim the sum of P12 450.00 from for work not done as dictated by the written agreement between the him and the Trust.

The Trust further claim costs in the sum of P1 500.00 making a total of P13 950,00. The letter from Marata Molefe attorneys is dated August 18 2014.