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Botswana: Conflict of Interest Knocks Ntime Out
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Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
14 March 2008
Posted to the web 17 March 2008
Oliver Modise
Gaborone
The chairman of the Botswana National Front (BNF) disciplinary committee Lemogang Ntime will recuse himself from hearing the case of suspended party activist Malatsi Mokhubami.
BNF chairman Bashi Sengwaketsi said Ntime will not preside over the case because he is an interested party. The case arose after a dispute over Ntime's relocation from Molepolole North constituency to Gaborone North. Mokhubami clashed with the party top brass over the relocation and resigned from the Gaborone North constituency electoral committee, which he chaired. The BNF responded by suspending and dragging him to the party disciplinary committee.
Already, Ntime and Mokhubami have had heated exchanges about the relocation. Sengwaketsi said that Mokhubami is expected to appear before the disciplinary committee within 30 days, though they have not served him with the charge sheet. It is understood that the decision to suspend Mokhubami was taken on March 3 by the party executive committee.Sengwaketsi said the BNF is not a playing ground and people must understand this. "Discipline must prevail in the party," he added.
Mokhubami has dismissed the suspension and vowed to keep up his activism in Gaborone North. "I don't take the suspension seriously because as far as i am concerned, I have not broken any party rules," he said. "They should be suspending those that brought Ntime to the constituency at the 11th hour," he added. He claims that there is a ploy to silence opponents of Ntime's candidacy in Gaborone North. "Instead of suspending me the executive should be resolving the issue of Ntime's candidacy," he said.
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He vowed to campaign for Ntime's likely opponent in the BNF Gaborone North primaries Gabriel Kanjabanga even if he is suspended or expelled from the party.Efforts to get a comment from Kanjabanga proved futile as he refused to comment on Mokhubami's abrupt suspension. "It's best if I just keep quiet. I do not want to be suspended," said Kanjabanga who has kept a low profile since Ntime's relocation.
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