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Idle DIS officers paid over P8.1m

Peter Magosi PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Peter Magosi PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Government has spent more than P8.1 million over the past three years paying salaries of 11 Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) officers who have not been reporting for duty, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing has revealed. Appearing before the committee on Monday, DIS Director General Peter Magosi defended his decision not to reinstate the officers.

He argued that they had successfully gone to court to declare that they were not members of the intelligence agency but officers of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) Military Police.

The dispute centres on a court case involving Mpho Baleseng and 10 other officers, who challenged their deployment to the DIS, maintaining that they belonged to the BDF Military Police rather than the intelligence agency.

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