PETTY POLITICS IN GHETTO
POLITICIANS never cease to amaze.
Apparently the failed attempt to pass a motion of no confidence in the Francistown City Council Town Clerk, Lopang Pule, was based on petty and unfounded accusations. In a plot doomed from the very beginning, the Botswana Democratic Party councillors chickened out, as no one had the guts to table a motion during a Full Council session earlier this month. Like typical politicians, after caucusing and coming up with a plan, some of the councillors doublecrossed their allies by tipping-off the TC and the Mayor. The snitches obviously want to win favour with the city leader
ship and had no hesitation in letting the cat out the bag.
Apparently the councillors were not happy that an opposition Councillor, Gaone Majere, was part of a delegation that went to Sweden at the invitation of the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). In their narrow minds, such trips should be exclusive to BDP legislators!