A defiant Basotho National Party (BNP) member from the Maseru Central constituency has dared leader Machesetsa Mofomobe to suspend him. Relebohile Thaele is one of the nine people who wrote the King and Prime Minister Sam Matekane apologising for what they described as Mofomobe’s unbecoming behaviour. They accused Mofomobe of spewing insults against eminent people in the country. Mofomobe has started writing to them one-by-one asking them to give reasons why they cannot be suspended from the party pending their disciplinary hearing.
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Thaele received his show cause letter last week and promptly responded, daring Mofomobe to suspend him.
“First of all, I dare you suspend me Ntate,” Thaele said in his letter to Mofomobe.
Thaele reminded Mofomobe that he once insulted Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili with unprintable insults.
“I am sure you are going to deny this because there is no clip in our hands,” Thaele said.
“You really think the whole world is that blind and forgetful? Ntate suspend me, Go AHEAD.”
He told Mofomobe that when they wrote the King and Matekane the letters “we did not sign on behalf of the party but as part of a faction that is against your barbaric and vulgar utterances”.
He said Mofomobe’s mission is to eliminate everyone who is not afraid to expose him to a vote of no confidence at the BNP’s national conference in November.
He accused Mofomobe of aiming only to win the conference elections, not the national elections.
“I will not in any way try to justify why you shouldn’t suspend me because you are going to do it anyway,” he said.
“So you might as well go ahead, suspend me. I am looking forward to receiving my suspension letter as soon as possible.”
Mofomobe appears to be targeting the nine members who wrote the letter to the King and the prime minister.
Former principal secretary Bereng Makotoko was the first of the nine to receive his letter a fortnight ago. He has now written to Thaele and ’Matšitso Monaheng who are both from Maseru Central.
Mofomobe said he has been advised by the BNP’s national executive committee to demand answers from those who wrote to the King and the prime ministers to apologise on his behalf.
He said the nine had tarnished the party’s image and brought the leadership into disrepute.
Majara Molupe
