BOPEU to decide membership of BOFEPUSU

According to BOPEU Gaborone branch chairperson, Oaitse Diane Patle the decision to pull out or not out of the federation would be taken by the membership during a special congress very soon. Patle said following the BOFEPUSU ‘unconstitutional’ congress last week, the leadership of BOPEU would call a special congress to retrospect and map the way forward.

He said contrary to the media reports, there were no elections during the federation congress. “Delegates who attended the elective congress were denied their constitutional right to cast their vote contrary to what they had expected. The election process was neither free nor fair; elections were rigged by the current committee in office, which has elected itself through what it terms block voting, which was unconstitutional,” said Patle.