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Kalkidan Yibeltal
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South Africa's opposition uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, which is backed by former President Jacob Zuma, has called for the "immediate resignation" of a top official at South Africa's electoral commission (IEC). Thirteen suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of prominent Ethiopian opposition politician Bate Urgessa, police in the troubled Oromia region say.
MK says IEC commissioner Janet Love is "highly vested in the outcomes of the upcoming elections and cannot be trusted to oversee nor be involved" in the polls due to her previous membership of the governing ANC party They haven’t provided details about the
and alleged close ties with President Cyril Ramaphosa. identities of the suspects but they said a criminal investigation had been launched.
It accuses her of "blatant acts of bias", including failing to recuse herself from the electoral committee that decided on Mr Zuma’s eligibility, "despite the clear conflict of interest". Mr Bate, a senior figure within the Oromo Liberation Front
"Should Janet Love fail to resign in the next seven days, the MK party reserves the right to pursue all available avenues to address this issue, including approaching our courts," the party said in a statement on Friday. (OLF) opposition party, was shot dead earlier this week.
The party's call for Ms Love's resignation comes just hours after the IEC moved to the Constitutional Court to challenge this week's ruling which overturned a ban on Mr Zuma's candidacy, allowing him to contest the forthcoming election. His body was found on Wednesday morning by the side
Ms Love was a member of the ANC from the 1970s, when she was part of the anti-apartheid movement, and went on to become an MP representing the party. She has previously denied accusations of bias. of the road near a skip in his hometown of Meki.
President Ramaphosa appointed her as one of the IEC's five commissioners last October. Family members told local
media that he had been taken from his hotel room by "people who looked like
government security forces" on Tuesday night.
Oromia’s regional government
denied that its security forces were involved in the killing.
Hospital sources
told the BBC that Mr Bate's body exhibited multiple gunshot wounds.
He was
buried on Thursday but questions are being raised about whether proper forensic
investigations were carried out.
The US and the UK government called for an
independent investigation into the killing.
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