MASERU - Councillors within the Maseru City Council (MCC) on Tuesday came out with guns blazing, accusing the Minister of Local Government Lits’oane Lits’oane of damaging the good image of the council.

Mr Lits'oane held a press conference on Monday to inform the public about the decisions made by the ministry regarding a number of issues. The issues he discussed included, among others, the tender panel, loans and salary advances as well as travel policies made by MCC. Mr Lits’oane accused the council of implementing the policies against the Local Government Act. He also announced that the tender board which had been formed by the councillors was against the Act. The tender board, he therefore showed, had been dissolved, adding that the mentioned policies should also not be used. For their part, the councillors also held their own press briefing the following day to set the record straight about the issues the minister raised at his own media conference.