. The latest being agents, Sebuweng Mukani and Mpho Molokwane. This is just as the other agents were indefinitely suspended sometime March 2024 following allegations of leaking confidential information and are now suing a collective of P4.4million. It has been stated that the first plaintiff in the case, Mukani is a special agent having worked with the DIS since 2008 while the second plaintiff, Molokwane’s office is generally tasked with intelligence gathering and investigative work for DIS. In recently filed court papers Mukani and Molokwane, allege that prior to being put on indefinite suspension, they had been barred from the workplace for a period of nearly a month by verbal order issued by DIS Chief of Staff who at the time purported to have been acting on behalf of Magosi.
Following their suspension, the agents said they were subjected to a series of unlawful arrests, detention and searched by the same joint team of DIS officers and the Botswana Police Service (BPS) officers over the same allegations of leaking information. In their lawsuit, the agents’ cause of action arises out of the same facts as their other colleagues involving arrests and detention and the respective rights. Their cause of action is that the acts of DIS and the BPS alternatively, officers acting under their specific or general command, were unlawful and/or wrongful as against both of them especially that: *No specific crime was disclosed to them at the time of arrest or during the period of detention warranting such arrest, detention and searches and to date no specific crime has been stated. *No reasonable suspicion existed for them to have committed any crime warranting their arrests, detentions and searches. *No judicial warrants for the arrests, detentions and searches were obtained by the DIS and the BPS when no legally cognisable circumstances existed for non-obtainment of the same. *No lawfully cognisable excuse existed for denying them the assistance of family and access to counsel at arrest and during detentions contrary to their request and to the requests of their families and further contrary to court orders duly issued by the High Court of the Republic of Botswana. *They had committed no offence.
