Botswana's Intrusive intelligence condemned

Dow PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Dow PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

Last week, Specially Elected legislator, Unity Dow stole thunder from the Leader of Opposition in Parliament Dumelang Saleshando when she slammed the Directorate on Intelligence and Security (DIS ) for its abusive and harassment nature.

A day after Dow's shocking presentation, the Centre for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR Centre) Committee on Human Rights, echoed her sentiments. The Committee considered Botswana's second periodic report after presentations led by Presidential Affairs, Governance and Public Administration Minister Kabo Morwaeng. During her response to the State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by President Mokgweetsi Masisi last week, Dow requested legislators to speak with one voice and called for a Commission of Inquiry on the DIS to find out if it is still operating within its founding Act or not.

She said the public has always viewed the DIS as a monster; they feared it and that became a self-fulfilling prophecy. “We have allowed the DIS to operate outside the law. Absolutely no one, not even a Judge of the High Court, has the power or should have the power to a direct hiring or firing of anyone outside legally laid down procedures; direct the blacklisting or inclusion of anyone or company outside legally laid down procedures; listen to private conversations outside legally laid out procedures.

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