Ex-worker probed over threats to kill BOTEC CEO

ZOLANI KRAAI
Correspondent | Wednesday January 16, 2013 00:00

 

On the day, Moitoi, along with other retrenched workers, confronted BOTEC management to ask when they would be given their exit packages. Motoi told Mmegi that the two executives laughed off their enquiry when he came face to face with them at the reception. He said that he told them that 'all will not be well' (referring to his family's welfare), if they do not get their dues.

He related that he was shocked to be confronted by police officers as he was leaving BOTEC premises who demanded him to open his car boot. The officers, he said, alleged that an anonymous caller informed them that he threatened to kill the executives. Moitoi said the police searched his car and did not find the gun they were told he had.

He said they then took him to Urban Police Station for further questioning. They released him later without charging him. Urban Police Station acting commander Smash Mokoba said they have not found any evidence linking Moitoi to the threat-to-kill allegations. He said their investigations revealed that Moitoi's utterance - 'all will not be well' -was in reference to his inability to support his family thanks to the fact that BOTEC managementwould not say when they would accordingly pay him