Police officers violate people�s constitutional rights and cost the State millions in lawsuits

Many people are languishing in our jails not because they are guilty, but because the criminal justice system in Botswana can be so brutal, harsh and very uncompromising to the unsuspecting.

It is worse to those of our citizens who do not have the benefit of legal counsel and even worse, for foreigners who are in some cases wrongly accused of deeds not done.

As recent as last week I was instructed to defend a man of Zimbabwean origin. The surrounding and prevailing circumstances were that he had boarded a vehicle from South Africa to Zimbabwe via Botswana. At the border he, together with the driver and two other passengers were randomly stopped and searched as is border and customs exercises. The driver, upon the search beginning ran off and the unsuspecting passengers remained behind for the routine search. Unbeknown to them, there was dagga in the trailer and for that reason they were arrested and detained, fair enough. This was in March 2017.

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