'Team Bucs' threatens court action

The Bucs team is complaining that it's being denied the chance to campaign amongst the BNF members PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
The Bucs team is complaining that it's being denied the chance to campaign amongst the BNF members PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The Botswana National Front (BNF) elective congress is mired in controversy. A lobby group led by Baatlhodi ‘Bucs’ Molatlhegi popularly known as the 'Team Bucs' is currently weighing its options on whether to take the party to court or not.

The Team Bucs is complaining that it is being denied the chance to campaign amongst the BNF members and their efforts to engage the party central committee members has failed since it is not responding to their correspondence. According to a press release written by the suspended Team Bucs spokesperson Kaboyaone Sedimo, they have written numerous letters to the party central committee. Team Bucs is battling it out for party positions with the current party president Duma Boko’s team. “Our concerns stem principally but not exclusively from the fact that there are currently pending issues relating to the preparation and conduct of the planned congress.

The development has compelled us to issue this statement to inform the BNF members and the nation at large of the worrisome situation within the BNF," reads the press statement in part.

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