BOPRITA, BOPRITU ruling expected today
Friday, June 17, 2011
BOPRITA lodged a case againt BOPRITU after the latter transformed their First National Bank account into their own name. According to BOPRITA, officials of BOPRITU have been withdrawing large sums of money from the account and some of the funds may have been misappropriated.
The founders of BOPRITU are also founder members of BOPRITA. In the application, BOPRITA wants the respondents to be restrained from carrying out transactions on the FNB account.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...