Govt violated law by enforcing industrial court order - Boko

Boko who was addressing a workers' rally at Gaborone Secondary School grounds said by firing health workers on the pretext that it was enforcing the industrial court decision that essential service employees should all return to work, it "was acting outside its mandate," he said.

He said government should have told court that workers are in contempt of the court order."But then the court would have in return asked the government, "did you show them the court order so that each one of them could read it"? If the answer came in the affirmative, then as workers, you would then say in mitigation that it was impossible for you to perform the court order (that essential workers return back from the strike)," he said.