Auctioneers tell of their experience with DIS

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer | Friday April 16, 2010 00:00

Senki Sesinyi, who is popularly known as Tycoon in Gaborone, was accompanied by colleague Frederick Keakile to the DIS headquarters where they were following up the disappearance of their cash from the boot of the car which was in the hands of the DIS while one of their colleagues, Elias Ramogerika was being interrogated at the torture chambers upstairs on Wednesday evening.

'Hei, ba maikgantsho batho ba le ke ba bone ka nna today (they are so arrogant those DIS agents, today I have seen for myself).'

Sesinyi who describes himself as a an ex-police officer who quit the service and is now living large tells Mmegi that the DIS officers at the premises did not deny that they had abducted their colleague.

'They were blatantly arrogant and showing off; they were coming up with threats, especially this one called Thebe; we know each other because I was a police officer and he used to be a police officer too'.

Sesinyi continued: 'But I know him well; in the DIS office Thebe was cajoling me and pointing fingers at me; but I was not afraid; I told him this is not your office, these are government premises and he was not going to threaten me'.

 'He (Thebe) was beating tables with fists trying to exert himself and laughing at us continuously in arrogance; then he declared that we could not do anything.

I told him that many have laughed like that before and lost their jobs later'.

Sesinyi also talked of another boastful DIS agent called Lerumo.

Sesinyi's colleague, Keakile, told Mmegi; 'Ke ntse ke e utlwalela DIS; ke e bone, ke batho ba ba dikgoka( I used to hear about this DIS, today I have seen for myself; it is a bunch of  aggressive characters...I think  we were lucky that when we got there, there were not so many officers; but they were now starting to arrive at the office in large numbers and they were getting more and more arrogant. I regret going there I fear that one day they will ambush us. They can be cruel those guys,' said Keakile.

Sesinyi told Mmegi that he suspects the DIS were actually looking for him as well, especially after learning that his colleague was interrogated about the fancy lifestyle that they are living.

' I went to DIS with the papers from the auction so that if they had impounded my money thinking it is the proceeds of a crime I could show them item by item. I am an auctioneer myself, I used to be a police officer.  When I retired from the police I had only P600 after paying my debts, then I became an auctioneer, the rest is history.'

Sesinyi says he lodged a case against the DIS with the Central Police immediately after learning that his P56,000 had disappeared in DIS custody.