Frequent police roadblocks, searches rile residents

Some officers within the Botswana Police Service have been accused of oppressing the public through what some people term "illegal road blocks and searches".

They say that the scenario is the order of the day in most totalitarian countries where armed forces do as they please ignoring the written laws, which they were hired to enforce.

Of late, the public has observed with disbelief this emerging trend within the local armed forces.

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