Another victim of DIS Torture Speaks Out

A Gaborone taxi driver is living in fear of agents of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) after they allegedly brutalised him a few hours after he arrived at Gaborone West Phase One from his home village of Molepolole on Monday.

In a police statement deposed at the Gaborone Central Police Station, 32-year old Oganne Ntsima Kolane says about four DIS agents fetched him from his home and ferried him to DIS headquarters at former Radio Botswana premises on Khama Crescent, near State House.

"They demanded that I tell them where (a certain) Michael Mogome was," Kolane says. "I then told them that I last saw Mogome in February."Kolane said upon arrival at DIS headquarters, one of the four officers introduced him to three others in the office saying: "Ke yo monna yo o fitlhileng Michael Mogome (Here is the man who is hiding Michael Mogome)."

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