BCP pursues fraud charges against F/town West petitioners
Thursday, December 05, 2013

The BCP president Dumelang Saleshando said his party is furthering its investigations into the fraudulent petition with a view of launching criminal charges against those behind the fraud.
“It appears that all the names of the petitioners were hand written by one or two persons and their signatures are very similar. In this regard, the BCP is working around the clock to have a hand writing expert examine the petition with a view to ascertaining the authenticity of the petitioners,” he said during a press conference to launch party’s ‘Democratic Alert No. 1 of 2013’ yesterday.
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