BCP wants Tholwana Borethe authors charged

Staff Writer | Tuesday August 8, 2017 15:27

 

The private media had, of recent, been awash with false and alarmist reports that the Directorate on Intelligence and Security (DIS) has prepared a confidential report titled Tholwana Borethe. In a recent letter to Makgophe, BCP president Dumelang Saleshando noted that, “the alleged intelligence report details how the DIS meddles in politics by illegally and wrongfully spying on opposition political parties in Botswana with a view to destabilising them to the advantage of the ruling party”.

“The contents of the alleged report clearly caused alarm and deep-seated fear to the public in general and to opposition parties and their leaders in particular. We note that the DIS has issued a press release distancing itself from the said intelligence report. Significantly, the DIS claims that it has carried out an investigation and they know the originator of the alleged intelligence report.

They have also declared that the said report was bogus. Mmegi newspaper has of last Friday also indicated that its investigations have led to a finding that the said intelligence report is fake,” wrote the BCP leader.

With the letter, Saleshando made a formal report that the architects of the said fake intelligence report be hunted down and be charged together with whoever may have published the fake report without just cause.

“It is imperative that this fashionable and emerging trend of manufacturing fake intelligence reports, rumour and false statements and causing them to be published in the newspapers should be nipped in the bud. Such bogus publications cause unnecessary fear and alarm.”

Makgophe is still to respond to the letter.