BCP threatens action against IEC

The BCP issued the warning after they held a postmortem on last month's election. In a letter to the deputy town clerk, Terrance Ntalabgwe, who was the returning officer in the constituency, the BCP, through its Selebi-East chairman Joseph Molambane, indicated that failure by the IEC to accord civil servants an opportunity to vote last September as earlier directed was wrong. "The IEC has denied the electorate the right to exercise and enjoy their constitutional right, a scandal, which in civilised societies would warrant a resignation and national apology," the letter said. 

It alleged that parliamentary ballot boxes from Botshabelo Central and Bobirwa polling stations went to a wrong destination for verification and only arrived at a designated counting area at an unknown time to other stakeholders. The BCP claim Ntalabgwe did not seem to be in control yet there were a lot of planned behind the scene activities during the elections.