Kgosi dispels alleged standoff between DIS and Wildlife
Friday, June 02, 2017
There have been allegations, particularly media reports in the recent past, that the two government units charged with the protection of national security, which include environmental, do not see eye to eye.
It was reported that after the Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Tshekedi Khama established a Tourism Intelligence Unit at the DWNP specifically to fight poaching, he started recruiting from the Botswana Defence Force (BDF), which did not go well with the DIS. To rub salt to the wound, the anti-poaching unit has been well resourced. This stoked rivalry between the two organs with people accusing Khama of creating a parallel army.
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