City mayor, Shadrack Nyeku, had apparently called last Friday's special full council meeting to brief the council about the trip, which is scheduled for Friday. This reciprocates the visit by the Belgians last January. Francistown and the City of Genk have a twinning arrangement for the benefit of the two cities. Unfortunately, trouble started after the twinning committee, chaired by nominated councillor, Joyce Ndove, could not account for the trip. Ndove is on record failing to inform the council what they were going to do in Belgium at the taxpayer's expense. Generally, councillors were irked by the fact that the mayor did not "show respect" for them as he did not find it appropriate to inform them about the impending trip in advance.
"He called the meeting for the councillors to approve the trip, the list of delegates and their expenditure instead of requesting the pertinent council committee to approve the list of nominated officials and the finance committee approving the funds," queried a councillor who preferred anonymity. The councillor claimed that the mayor wanted the approval of the trip without the terms of reference thereby forcing the twinning committee to draft them.
