{"id":22353,"date":"2022-12-03T09:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T09:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/infighting-rocks-bnp"},"modified":"2022-12-03T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T09:04:23","slug":"infighting-rocks-bnp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/infighting-rocks-bnp","title":{"rendered":"Infighting rocks BNP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>THE Basotho National Party (BNP) has become the latest party to be rocked by infighting triggered by its dismal performance in the October election. As the party grapples to come to terms with its thumping defeat bigwigs have been pelting each other with blame for the poor performance.<\/p>\n

So intense is the internal feuding that the party is now said to be on the verge of implosion. In the tug of war is the party\u2019s secretary general, Moeketsi Hanyane, who this week fired a salvo at party leader Machesetsa Mofomobe.<\/p>\n

Hanyane told a press conference on Tuesday that Mofomobe should accept the blame for leading the party to its worst election defeat in history. He said instead of taking responsibility as a leader, Mofomobe is blaming him for the dismissal performance.<\/p>\n

Mofomobe has however fired back, accusing Hanyane of being rebellious. \u201cIt has been a while since I have been shouldering the blame for the general election\u2019s poor results,\u201d Hanyane said, adding that Mofomobe has been instigating his supporters to insult him.<\/p>\n

He said the party did not perform well because it didn\u2019t have money to campaign. He said the BNP did not get its share of the political campaign funding from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) because it failed to account for what it received in the 2015 election.<\/p>\n

Out of the M175 000 that the BNP was supposed to get from the IEC, it got only M15 000 as campaign funds, Hanyane said. He also said those in the past BNP national executive committee, of which Mofomobe was a member, did not account for the campaign funding received in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result, our party failed to secure M111 000.
\nHanyane said because of the financial problems the party used rentals from its BNP Centre to fund the rallies in Maputsoe, Quthing, Mafeteng and Teya-Teyaneng.<\/p>\n

He said this was the first time since 1993 that the party could not afford to print campaign regalia. Hanyane also said the national executive committee is chaotic under Mofomobe\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey accuse other members of sabotage, which shows a lack of cooperation in the party.<\/p>\n

\u201d Mofomobe, Hanyane added, spent more time mocking other party leaders instead of advancing the BNP\u2019s values and policies.<\/p>\n

He said instead of pleading with members of other parties to vote for the BNP, Mofomobe called them \u201cidiots beyond redemption\u201d. No wonder, Hanyane said, people turned against the party.<\/p>\n

He said Mofomobe was not ashamed to use valuable campaign time to mock leaders who own aeroplanes. \u201cHe said their aeroplanes were made of cardboxes, and that was his campaign message,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also said the BNP supporters were put off by Mofomobe\u2019s close relations with Democratic Congress (DC) leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu. \u201cThat issue did not sit well with some party supporters and followers in constituencies,\u201d Hanyane said.<\/p>\n

He said Mofomobe angered the chiefs and the church, the party\u2019s traditional pillars. \u201cThe chiefs regarded our party as one of the parties that were fighting them and the church too, those are the pillars of the party.<\/p>\n

\u201d He said Mofomobe should \u201cgo back and apologise to the chiefs and the church for hurting them\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leadership should also apologise to the members where they did wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201d Mofomobe however said Hanyane will face the music for organising a press conference without the national executive committee\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party will meet as soon as possible to take internal measures against the secretary general for doing what he did,\u201d Mofomobe said.<\/p>\n

He accused Hanyane of ignoring his orders. \u201cI told him to go on radio to campaign for the Stadium Area elections but he refused and I ended up going there myself,\u201d Mofomobe said. He said he will not hate Mokhothu without a valid reason. \u201cI will not hate him just because people want me to hate him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also stated that although they work well with Mokhothu he has his own reservations that include the DC\u2019s support for Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli who has been wallowing in remand prison for the past five years as he goes through trial for murder, attempted murders and treason charges.<\/p>\n

The DC is on record pushing for the withdrawal of charges against Lt Gen Kamoli. Mofomobe said he is not the first BNP leader to work with congress parties as Leabua Jonathan, the party founder, once worked with Basutoland Congress Party (BCP)\u2019s Pokane Ramoreboli who he made justice minister.<\/p>\n

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