Moupo vows to crack the whip, labels BDP arrogant
Botswana National Front (BNF) president Otsweletse Moupo told his fellow comrades that the party leadership will continue to instil discipline and suspend or expel wayward members who attack the party in public. He said that since the Molepolole Congress in 2007, members who lost primary elections have never appreciated the new leadership and have instead done everything in their power to discredit it. He said such members even refused to attend disciplinary hearings. "The members of the faction which styled itself the Temporary Platform did not only manifest utter contempt for all party procedures and processes, but (also) deliberately contrived to undermine the party and render it ungovernable," Moupo said. "They persistently attacked the party leadership through the public media, notwithstanding the well known BNF Code which proscribes such conduct." He said that when Otlaadisa Koosaletse and Tebogo Sebego challenged Nehemiah Modubule and Akanyang Magama in Lobatse and Gaborone South respectively, some members accused his leadership of trying to oust the two from their positions as Members of Parliament (MPs). But when they were still members of the Central Committee, the two MPs set up structures such as National Elections Appeals Committee to deal with disputes arising from primary elections.
"Today, when these comrades no longer occupy leadership positions within the party, they denounce the National Elections Appeals Committee, accusing it of being used by the Central Committee to deny those who have won the primary elections (and who were not preferred by the Central Committee) the right to represent the party in the coming general elections," Moupo said.
