I will return home once I have updated my Will – Khama
Mpho Mokwape | Monday November 28, 2022 06:00
“You are correct that I have said reports about my immediate return are false. I once again wish to reiterate that it is my intention to return sooner rather than later but when I feel that time has come I will announce it and once I have updated my Will,” he said. This publication caught up with Khama this week following his two time victory at the Court of Appeal. He was against the DIS in cases where the spy unit was appealing being denied access to his State House 4 believed to be a hub for illegal firearms and ammunition. The bench threw out the DIS appeals out of court despite Khama’s attorneys having walked out during the cases citing judicial interference. Quizzed about the outcome of the appeals, Khama explained that despite the judgement being in his favour, Masisi’s criminal syndicate also known as the DIS, were let loose on his residence in revenge and in retaliation to that judgement. “The DIS went to my residence despite being told they have no right to be there. My attorneys are confronting the illegality of whoever was there,” he said. Khama pointed out that the constant harassment from State organs especially the DIS was an action designed to try and further discredit and humiliate him but said it will fail as of previous attempts because the citizens of the country and others abroad including governments, international organisations, media, civil society and individuals who he has successfully engaged with regularly, know the truth.
He emphasised that the constant unlawful conduct on behalf of the DIS masters as instructed by them was evidence of their intentions to eliminate him as they feel he is a threat to their re-elections. “That is a fact. They realise I am such a threat to their re-election chances, even on my own, that the law enforcement agencies have to be massed to take me on. What cowards!” he noted.
The former president cemented his sentiments on harassment saying, "nothing changes or will ever change as long as Masisi with his stooges, the DIS director Peter Magosi and the head of his so-called DIS protection detail, masquerading as a bodyguard, are still in their positions as they are a clear and present danger to his very existence." On pressing issues of court outcomes being leaked before they were made available by the court and if he was also aware of the judgement, Khama had a different take explaining that the judgements were never leaked to him but were leaked to the DIS and that is the reason they were at his house ransacking it the night before. “They were definitely not leaked to me. But they were leaked by one person to the DIS. Hence their starting to ransack my residence on the eve of the judgement coming out,” he explained.
On the interference in the judiciary and having instructed his attorneys to walk out of the cases at the CoA, Khama said, “I gave reasons in a statement that was issued at the time. I believe now as I did then, that based on the reasons given to me at the time that it was appropriate to do so. I would like to believe strongly as I have always done in our judiciary. It should remain the fortress of our shattered democracy under this Cava regime” The former president further lamented that of the three arms of governance, the Executive was the most corrupt and the Legislature being full of rigged Cava MPs and that all what was left was the judiciary being the reason he has really pinned his hope on them as all Batswana should, that they will not flinch in the face of the desperate and destructive onslaught tearing the country apart. Meanwhile, Khama when asked about his last remaining case which is a criminal case where he is charged together with many others including former DIS head, Isaac Kgosi and suspended Police Commissioner Keabetswe Makgophe for firearms and ammunitions pending before Broadhurst Magistrate’s Court, he said he does not believe it was the last case against him as the DIS will always try to find something to pin on him.
“The case was postponed to February, but there is also a review application in place. But I don’t think this is, as you say, the only remaining case. Each time they lose they are instructed to drum up another fabrication by their failed leadership. So it will go on until they are driven out in shame, disgust and dishonour by a suffering electorate at the next elections,” said Khama. In conclusion of the interview, Khama had these last words to share: “I have said before and I say it again now. Nothing is permanent. The one thing we are all certain of, that happens every day by God’s will, is that the sun rises and the sun sets. And by God’s will, the sun will set on them as well, and when that day comes it will thus rise for us, and they will be held to account for all their evil doings”