This follows an incident this week which saw the new leadership GS26, a Botswana Democratic Party's affiliate sweeping all the posts and the outgoing leadership, Mass Botswana National Front (BNF) refusing to hand over the office. The elections were held on March 31 and this week the GS26 forcefully took over the office and locked them demanding that the dispute be resolved first. The UB management has now intervened through the institution's legal advisor David Fani who has ruled that the outgoing leadership did not follow the constitution by taking too long to resolve issues emanating from the election, as a result delaying the handing over of the offices. While the inauguration is pegged for today, the outgoing SRC has said it would not be part of the event as the management "was siding with GS26."
"We are not interested in whatever they are saying. Right now all we want is for them to hand over the office because they lost the elections. The matter is being dealt with at management level now and not the SRC level," president-elect Gobe Taziba said.
