MASERU – THE All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Nkaku Kabi says his party will soon bounce back into government.
Kabi was speaking at a rally in Motimposo constituency on Sunday.
“Some people who voted this government into power are already regretting their decision,” he said, adding that four months after Sam Matekane’s election as Prime Minister, nothing had really changed on the ground.
Thousands of Basotho are still going to bed hungry, Kabi said.
The ABC leader said while his belief that his party will bounce back into government might sound outlandish, he remains convinced that history will soon repeat itself.
Kabi said in 2016 he told local radio stations that the ABC would win election and become government again but was attacked and was seen as a dreamer.
“Some party members were not happy, insisting that I had made such a revelation prematurely. But we did become the government in 2017,” he said.
Kabi said the ABC is now in a similar position to that of 2016 when he looks at how the Matekane-led government is handling things.
He said he has no doubt that his party will one day bounce back into power.
Kabi pleaded with his supporters to exercise patience so that their party could remain intact and united.
He appealed to the supporters to stop factional fights because they would further weaken the already feeble party.
The ABC failed to bag even a single constituency in last October’s general elections. It only secured eight seats under the Proportional Representation (PR) system.
Kabi argued that there was no other party apart from the ABC that had a sound programme to eradicate hunger in Lesotho.
He however said they will only be able to achieve their goal of reclaiming power if the boiling tensions within the party are allowed to simmer down.
Kabi applauded the Motimposo constituency committee for working tirelessly to make the rally a success.
He said he was happy that his members in the constituency were already engaged in income- generating projects to fight hunger.
Kabi also waded into the current challenges at the LEC that saw the company switch off power to the WASCO last week, plunging Maseru into a week-long water crisis.
He said there was no way the LEC could function properly if companies and government parastatals owe it huge amounts of money. He said those who owe the LEC should settle their debts.
Kabi said the poor, who voted in large numbers for Matekane’s Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) last year, are still miserable after they had their hopes of an upturn in their economic fortunes shattered.
He said Matekane had failed to fulfil his electoral promises.
Kabi said an ABC government would slash the age at which the elderly would receive their old age pensions from the current 70 to 65.
“Adults can sleep on empty stomachs but the children can’t; they cry all night long,” Kabi said.
He said some people who had benefited from the party’s largesse in the past had now turned their backs against the ABC.
He said their goal is to fulfil the goals set by party founder Thomas Thabane by lifting every Mosotho out of poverty.
RFP deputy spokesperson Thabo Maretlane said they found nothing in the government coffers when they took over.
He said they found more than 500 ghost employees in the Ministry of Health who were being paid fraudulently.
He said they are now trying to fix the huge damage caused by the previous government.
Nkheli Liphoto
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