Don’t disappoint voters, candidates told

MASERU – The All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Nkaku Kabi, has urged the party candidates not to disappoint voters once elected to power.

Addressing thousands at the party’s final rally held at the Pope John Paul Monument in Maseru today, Kabi said they should remember what they promised the people.

“We want you to listen to the people and answer their needs,” Kabi said.

He said they should be loyal to the people and to the party.

Appealing to the masses to vote for the ABC in large numbers so that he becomes the prime minister, Kabi said he was a cabinet minister and saw many things he should fix.

There are things I will address immediately, he said.

“In our government salaries of security agents will be reviewed immediately,” he said.

“Their job is highly risky.”

He added that farmers should vote for the ABC so that he would continue paying their produce.

He said the ABC government pushed hard to ensure farmers get paid for their produce sold to the government or where the government had influence.

We will start where we ended, he said.

He also said as his predecessor in the ABC leadership, Thomas Thabane, promised to increase the old-age pension and to start it at 60 years.

This is what the ABC government will fulfil, he said.

He also urged factory workers to vote for the ABC because it is the one that pushed for increment of their wages.

Thabane, who had attended the rally to show support and tout for his successor, said he was happy that the people went to the rally in great numbers.

Staff Reporter