Last Sunday the BNF officially slapped PUSO with a six-month suspension following a Southern Regional Committee meeting that went out of control. The letter of suspension was delivered to PUSO President Nehemiah Modubule, himself recently suspended. A lawyer acting for PUSO, Joba Nnoi, has written to the BNF Central Committee, warning the party leadership to set aside the suspension within seven days or face PUSO before the High Court in Lobatse.
Nnoi says that the Southern Region has no powers to suspend PUSO from the BNF. PUSO members are alleged to have disrupted a regional meeting held at Ipeleng Primary School in Lobatse last week Saturday. However, Nnoi argues that the suspension was unlawful because his clients were never given the opportunity to answer to the alleged charge. Nnoi contends that the meeting in question was a general membership meeting, adding that PUSO did not attend the meeting. "If indeed our client had participated in the aforesaid meeting, the organization (would) have convened a meeting at which representatives of the organization would have been appointed to attend the meeting on its behalf," reads the lawyer's letter to the BNF Central Committee.
