US distances itself from �hate pastor�

Following a live radio interview, President Ian Khama slapped him with a Prohibited Immigrant order, which was served on him by security and immigration officials waiting for him outside the GabzFM premises Monday morning. He was later escorted to Sir Seretse International Airport to be boarded into a waiting aircraft out of the country.  Yesterday, the embassy called a roundtable and in a brief official statement, deputy chief of mission, Timothy Smith said the US had no position regarding Anderson and Botswana.

He said what transpired between Anderson and Botswana had nothing to do with the embassy. “He might be a citizen of the US, but America has no relation with him and his church. He is an individual and that is why we have no position on him,” he said.