Khama refuses suspended judges� demands

Patient Thuto, the lawyer for the four suspended judges - Key Dingake, Modiri Letsididi, Mercy Garekwe and Ranier Busang – had, on September 3, written to the President demanding that the suspension be rescinded and the panel appointed to investigate the quartet be replaced with foreign judges with no connection to the Botswana legal system.

A day later, the chief legal counsel to government, Attorney General Athalia Molokomme, wrote back stating that the President would do no such thing, as in their view there was nothing illegal or unconstitutional in his actions.