Boko sheds a tear for client's life
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Sampson and Michael Molefhe, a South African citizen, face a possible death sentence after the court found them guilty of the murder of Robert Ncube and Sam Humbarume in Mogoditshane on December 24, 2000. On January 28 this year, the court ruled that there were no extenuating circumstances in the murder case and gave the defence time to present their mitigating factors.
Boko argued that since the court had found no extenuating circumstances, it still had an opportunity to exercise its discretion to temper justice with mercy.
He said that Sampson had never had a brush with the law and he committed the offence in self-defence.
For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...