A few months ago, there were reports that a faction of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) loyal to former Prime Minister was making manoeuvres to topple the government led by Dr Moeketsi Majoro with a vote of no confidence.
This, according to observers, was a bid by Thabane to reclaim the power he had been humiliatingly stripped of by member of parliament. The ouster was instigated and spearheaded by a faction of his own party. Well, as fate would have it, the move failed spectacularly.
What was disgusting about this attempt to remove the government was that, at the time, the country was facing an unprecedented surge in Covid-19 cases. Yet, instead of joining ranks to come up with a solution to the problem, a bunch of self-seeking, narcissistic politicians were only interested in wresting power, with no iota of a bother about the plight of the people they lead.
That was as abominable and despicable then as it is now. It has recently been widely reported that the ABC’s secretary general, who happens to be Thabane’s son in law, was once again leading fresh attempts at toppling Majoro. This, amid much publicised reports of a rift between Thabane and Majoro.
Now, what this suggests is that what we have here is breed of politicians with a dangerous cocktail of overconfidence, over-ambition, arrogance and pride fuelled by power and success.
The country is still in the grip of a pandemic, there is a crisis at tertiary institutions where students are starving because the government has not yet disbursed their stipends; unemployment is rising. These are just some of the issues that our politicians should be focusing on addressing. Yet, they are busy scheming and devising ways to grab govern machinery.
Who is the ultimate winner and who is the biggest loser at the end of the day?
