'State enemy No.1' Salbany cleared
Friday, May 24, 2019
This was four years after the DCEC laid a charge of obstructing the State agents from executing their duties against him. Regarded as once an ‘enemy’ of the State, Salbany was arrested and detained at Mogoditshane Police Station supposedly on a charge of obstructing the officers in their investigations back in 2015.
At the time, he was representing Botswana Gazette newspaper in a case in which the DCEC raided the offices of the publication in an attempt to stop it from publishing some information that involved a subject of an investigatoin by the graft busting agency.
The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...