Missing equipment, shoot-to-kill and gripens: Galebotswe reflects Pt II

One issue that captured newspaper headlines during General Galebotswe’s tenure was the court action over the so-called “missing spy equipment”. The essence of the matter smacked of a power struggle within the highest offices of the military and the intelligence agencies.

The matter, initially kept under wraps within the BDF, blew out into the public space after two BDF personnel filed an urgent application defending themselves against allegations from the army that they had stolen sensitive equipment over a period of about six years. The BDF had convened a Board of Enquiry and intended to call the then Permanent Secretary to the President,(PSP) Eric Molale and intelligence chief, Isaac Kgosi.