Extradition raises diplomatic hot potato

Kativa Diwanga. PIC.KENNEDY RSMOKONE
Kativa Diwanga. PIC.KENNEDY RSMOKONE

FRANCISTOWN: The Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) may have been vindicated in a case in whether Botswana should extradite murder accused from countries that have abolished the death penalty.

Last year in September, the DPP failed in its endeavour to repatriate a Tanzanian national who is charged with Kativa Diwanga of having killed a family of three in Gaborone.

The Tanzanian citizen is currently in the custody of Namibian authorities. The Namibian authorities want assurances that he will not be executed in the event that he is extradited to Botswana and found guilty of murder.

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Inspect the voters' roll!

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