Katlholo wins first round
Friday, May 13, 2022 | 1620 Views |

Tymon Katlholo
This is seemingly one of the biggest turf wars in the land by two powerful security organs, the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) supervised by the Office of the President (OP). Interestingly, the turf wars have precedence. Previously, there were incursions between the DCEC and the DIS when Rose Seretse was at the helm of the DCEC with the pioneering DIS director-general, Isaac Kgosi’s team incessantly raiding the graft-busting agency in search of certain files that amongst others implicated the then DIS head.
In one instance, the DCEC purely investigated the DIS DG, Kgosi on allegations of corruption and money laundering amongst others. The unrelenting DCEC kept the DIS at bay at the time, but the turf wars have always been dirty and murky.
According to a press statement from the police, unidentified armed men attacked on duty police officers at the station in the early hours of Tuesday.During the attack, the suspects stole 14 riffles, five pistols and an undisclosed number of ammunition.Although unconfirmed, it is alleged that the suspects were just carrying knives and axes, which they used to scare the men and women in uniform before they took them hostage to help themselves to...