Back in July this year, a couple was embarrassed after the police raided a wedding party and seized cattle that were about to be presented as the bride price at Goo-Ruele ward in Kanye. Two months down the line, yet another wedding turned sour this time in Thamaga where a couple suffered the same fate after the police raided their ceremony, confiscating the beasts suspected to be stolen, as the couple and their families were left utterly humiliated.
In a fresh incident of a similar nature, at Malokaganyane village, the police impounded seven cattle suspected to have been stolen, even though the couple went ahead and celebrated their wedding as planned this past Saturday. Last week Wednesday, police arrested a 51-year-old man of Radinku ward at Sheep Farm near Ramatlabama in possession of seven suspected stolen cattle, which he tried to register and sell to the couple. According to the public relations officer of the Botswana Police Service, Dipheko Motube, Kgomokhumo operatives arrested the suspect after he failed to account for the cattle that were kept at the couple’s farm at Malokaganyane. Motube said the cattle were supposed to have been presented as bogadi (bride price) at the couple’s first leg of the wedding ceremony that took place at Lesetlhana ward in Ramotswa on November 24.
