BOPEU joins calls for Dibotelo to go

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The Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) has called for Chief Justice (CJ) Maruping Dibotelo’s immediate resignation citing loss of confidence in his ability to run and manage the judiciary.

‘The judiciary is too far important an institution to be left to the whims of a divisive old man…,” charged Union president, Andrew Motsamai, during a media briefing yesterday.

These remarks come after the latest developments in the judiciary, in which Justice Dibotelo handed four High Court judges to the police for allegedly obtaining housing allowances they did not qualify for. 

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