He is charged together with former spy chief Isaac Kgosi who faces 33 charges suspended police chief Keabetswe Makgophe and former Director General at the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime Victor Paledi (AC Vol 62 No 22 Masisi and Khama step up the feud)...
Security agents raided the homes of former President Ian Khama on 23-25 October in search of unlicensed weapons and arrested his ally former spy chief Isaac Kgosi as President Mokgweetsi Masisi goes for the jugular after suffering recent defeats in a long-running feud with his predecessor (AC Vol 62 No 18 Presidents trade more blows)...
Motsepe challenges an affidavit sworn by Jako Hubona an anti-corruption official in Gaborone which was produced to oppose bail for Welheminah Mphoeng Maswabi aka 'Butterfly' a Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS) officer with ties to deposed DISS head Isaac Kgosi Khama's right-hand man and security supremo when he was president...
A former spy operative widely known as 'Butterfly' is already facing corruption charges including money-laundering and the names of Khama and his ally former spy chief Isaac Kgosi have been mentioned in court...
In his 18 months in office he has fought corruption by passing a declaration of assets law for public officers and removed some barriers to small business trading and land use and arrested Isaac Kgosi the head of the feared secret police...
Khama's anger at his successor centres on the reduction to his privileges as a past president and the removal from office of his intelligence chief Isaac Kgosi who faces prosecution for major offences but has only appeared in court on accusations of obstructing justice and exposing the identities of intelligence officers (AC Vol 60 No 3 A party at war)...
Possibly Masisi's greatest sin against Khama was to dismiss the much-feared intelligence chief Isaac Kgosi who was widely seen as Khama's right-hand man and immune from prosecution...
Vol 59 No 20 |
- BOTSWANA
- BRITAIN
President Masisi sacked Isaac Kgosi a close Khama ally as Director-General of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) an armed intelligence organisation with powers of arrest criticised for operating like a private police force...
Botswana's then defence attaché in London Colonel Lambert Tshweneetsile the British High Commissioner to Botswana Nick Pyle the UK Foreign Office's representative to the Botswana government Tsie Kebatshabile and the then Department of Intelligence and Security director Isaac Kgosi were key to arranging the exhibition according to a source with knowledge of the event...
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In May Masisi sacked Isaac Kgosi Khama's much-feared intelligence chief and right-hand man...
Masisi's sacking of intelligence chief Isaac Kgosi was another important break with Khama...