How a dead man petitioned Khama

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FRANCISTOWN: A man who has been dead and buried since 2010 has inexplicably found his way into a petition that turned the Francistown West by-election on its head and influenced the high court to declare President Ian Khama an all-powerful Behemoth figure above the law.

But Ignatius Moswaane, the man who is at the centre of the Hollywood-style script as the preferred candidate for the BDP in the by-election, is denying any privy knowledge of how the dead man could have petitioned President Khama to use his extra-ordinary powers to stop the poll in the public interest.

Or how, in his death or thereabouts, the man underwent a transmogrification that caused him to cross the floor from the Botswana Peoples Party to the BDP where he became a fervent activist who believes in the power of protest action to move a party that has a history of suppressing even a murmur of dissent.

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Gov't must empower DCEC urgently

As the new Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) government takes charge, it must act decisively to equip the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) with the tools, laws, and resources needed to combat graft. The time for half-measures is over. DCEC Director-General, Botlhale Makgekgenene’s, recent address to the Public Accounts Committee paints a stark picture. Over five years, leadership instability, chronic underfunding and weak...

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