When children terrorise villagers
Friday, July 22, 2022 | 890 Views |

Bontleng street PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
FRANCISTOWN: Minors aged 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in court Tuesday on a certificate of urgency asking to be granted bail following a spate of shop breaking, theft and armed robbery cases that rocked Kasane and Kazungula villages.
One of the minors is a student at Okavango Junior Secondary School (OJSS) and he was expelled from school after he missed classes for 21 consecutive days.
It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...