Gaborone mayor nips 'no confidence' motion in the bud

Gaborone City Council (GCC) full meeting was adjourned after Mayor Veronica Lesole nipped a Botswana Congress Party (BCP) councillor's "motion of no confidence in the office of the mayor and all the committees" in the bud.

Yesterday councillor Ndiwane Kenosi stood up to comment on Lesole's speech, but chose instead to invoke Council Standing Order 45, which allows for motions without notice, and proceeded to move that council should declare no confidence in the mayor, whose speech he termed "an embarrassment".

Council standing orders empower the mayor to adjourn council, and she used the provision to adjourn council to a date she would announce later. As for Kenosi's motion, she said it would be moved when the time for motions comes.

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