BCP digs in for Mbaiwa's ouster

This comes barely four months after Mbaiwa assumed the council's hot seat. Of the five motions to be tabled by councillor Leungo Mataio of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), three specifically call for the mayor to vacate the mayoral seat. The first motion calls for the Selebi-Phikwe Town Council (SPTC) to resolve to declare that the "election of Councillor Mbaiwa to the position of the mayor was erroneous, irregular and as a result produced an illegitimate mayor".

 The other motion calls upon the council to resolve that the mayor should do the honourable thing by not chairing the proceedings once the council debates motions which he has pecuniary interests in and when discussions involve his name. The last motion calls on the council to pass a motion-of-no-confidence in the mayor for "illegitimacy and gross incompetence and for him to vacate the mayoral office forthwith".