UDC petitioners face exorbitant legal fees

Friday, May 29, 2020

UDC pertitioners at Court of Apeal PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

While businesses and individuals are grappling with challenges brought about by the (COVID-19) coronavirus-induced lockdown, Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) 2019 general election candidates received sobering news to cough up on legal costs.

Mmegi has been reliably informed that by end of business today, all those who lost election petition cases would be served their litigation bills.

This comes after 14 members of the UDC took some members of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) to court claiming that they were cheated out of votes in the 2019 general election.

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