Fight far from over- Khama
Mompati Tlhankane | Monday August 30, 2021 09:38
Khama was implicated in a case in which former Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) agent, Welheminah Maswabi was charged with financing terrorism, possession of unexplained property and false declaration of a passport. Justice Zein Kebonang of the Gaborone High Court recently acquitted Maswabi of all charges.
Khama now claims that the issue is far from over as the current regime led by President Mokgweetsi Masisi plans to pay individuals to make false revelations about him. In an interview with Mmegi on Wednesday evening, Khama added that all those who plan to discredit him further would never succeed.
He was implicated alongside South African businesswoman, Bridgette Motsepe-Radebe without having been cited in the case as defendants. Khama and Motsepe-Radebe last year went as far as enlisting an international law firm Omnia Strategy, headed by UK barrister Cherie Blair, to prove their innocence.
“They are totally discredited as demonstrated by the real victim and now heroine, Miss Maswabi who took on everything they threw at her and defeated them and emerged as a bigger and better person than they will ever be,” he said.
Khama, who expressed that the Masisi-led government is trying to turn the country into a ‘Banana Republic’ during a recent interview with the SABC news television channel, revealed that they will continue to sue for defamation and expose those who instructed that the criminality to be undertaken.
“Yes indeed, we are going ahead and suing these people. We can’t afford to allow such criminality to go without confrontation, and to bring back law and order into the Executive.
To achieve this eventually, hopefully sooner rather than later, they must fall, from top to bottom”, he said. Khama recently told Mmegi that the DIS wants him to flee the country and also indicated that he is targeting those at the top in his court battles.
“As part of the defamation case and in other ways now and later, we are going after all those who were involved in this criminal act especially those who presided over orchestrating the fabrication,” he further told this publication.
He also said it is now time for the rest of them to remove the regime and usher in those who will restore the rule of law which for now is only being upheld by the judiciary. Khama, who has been worried that the DIS plans to plant something within his properties and set him up for a crime he did not commit, said his reputation is intact as far as he is concerned. “My actions speak louder than their lies. It always has been despite their criminal intentions,” added Khama. In April, Khama approached the Broadhurst Police to lay perjury charges against a Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) investigator, Jako Hubona.
Khama told the SABC in an interview on Tuesday that people who have been listed in the judgment are just functionaries so they want the ‘big fish’ behind the falsified case to be named.
“We want them to be exposed and face the consequences. Because they are cowards they went and put these junior people in front to go and take the heat but we are coming after them,” he told Mmegi.
The court has since ordered that Hubona be referred to the Commissioner of Police for prosecution for perjury and to the DCEC director general for disciplinary action. Justice Kebonang had also ordered that one of the players being director of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Steven Tiroyakgosi be referred to President Masisi for removal from office.
Moreover, Tiroyakgosi has also been referred to the Law Society of Botswana for investigation and appropriate sanction. Former assistant director of the DPP, Priscilla Israel has been referred to the Permanent secretary to the President and DCEC director general for disciplinary action.
This comes after a recent court case in which the Gaborone High Court ordered the government of Botswana to reimburse Khama for all the costs he incurred during a trip to India in 2019.