MAHIKENG MAIL-MAHIKENG: A group of ANC members on Monday closed the ANC Getrude Mphekwa House as well as temporarily stopping the recent ongoing road construction in Mahikeng CBD calling for the Premier Nono Maloyi to ‘Apologies’ for calling them thugs and hooligans.
The group demanded the apology after hearing the a statement Premier where he called on to condemn people who portrayed themselves as business people however engaged on criminal acts and forcedly demanding tenders from government.
The Premier is his statement said senior officials encouraged wrong doing. “When this criminals come to our offices threating you. You award them with tenders. You appoint them to do grass cutting they don’t have capacity. Appoint them to build houses they don’t have capacity. What they do after receiving an appointment letter, they go to ask someone with capacity to houses on their behalf and give us 30 percent. What is happening is that all this thugs from jail are told by the ones from outside that have captured government, when you come out open a company so that you can make money they we make money”.
“We encouraging them to be a lot and we need to stop this. A thug and thief must be told you are a thugs and thief and we have no room for you, get out and your place is in prison and nowhere else. This thing is rife in this municipality. This thugs are all over Mahikeng and doing as they wish. I want to call on the Police Mr Lehari that this things must be arrested, this things are not human beings and they can’t leave amongst us. The y must go and leave with their friends and counterpart in prison not here. So let’s fight this thing all of us,” said Maloyi
The latter did not sit well with the angry mob who on Monday closed the ANC Mphekwa houses and the road construction calling on the Premier Moloyi to immediately respond towards his statement and give them a way forward.
“We view the premier’s statement and comment as flop and demand the premier to apologies and retreat his statement in public and to the senior officials who he addressed when he called us thugs. We are members of the society and the premier cannot dedicate who should do business with government. Going to prison is part of reform and integration towards what you have done in the past not for people to judge or discriminate who should do business with the state. We are well aware that they want to give their friends tenders and that will not be allowed under the leadership of the ANC. We are all equal and we must be given fair opportunities too”.
The mob met with the secretary of the PEC who informed the group that the premier was not available however noted their concerns which will be given to the premier to address.
