My mother called me on hit-list � Kgosi

Kgosi taking oath before he gave an account of his institution's expenditure PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Kgosi taking oath before he gave an account of his institution's expenditure PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

Upon learning about the so-called hit-list against opposition leaders in the news, Isaac Kgosi’s mother called him and enquired if he was into the business of killing people, the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee heard yesterday.

“I got a call from my mother who wanted to know if I was now killing people and I told her that I was not yet employed at the Prisons as a hangman,” testified the Director General of Intelligence and Security before the Committee questioning him on whether a hit-list indeed existed.

The ‘hit-list’ came into prominence late last month at a political rally in Gabane where the president of opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), Duma Boko alleged that there was a plot to assassinate him and other politicians opposing President Ian Khama.

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