Labour officers warned against crooked immgrants

PALAPYE: The head of the Directorate on Intelligence and Security Services (DISS), Isaac Kgosi has encouraged senior labour officers to frustrate efforts by some foreigners who thrive on bogus documents.

Addressing the annual labour officers' conference at the Desert Sands Hotel in Palapye, Kgosi encouraged the top labour officers who included regional labour officers, district labour officers and other stakeholders to be very careful with the documents presented to them. Kgosi was presenting a paper on the topic: "Challenges presented by the employment of non-citizens".

The DISS boss was worried that it was common that there were some nationalities that were bent on penetrating Botswana "by hook or crook through obtaining and presenting bogus travelling documents, educational documents, residential and work permits".

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