Matsheka raises stakes against DIS

Matsheka, also a businessman, raised the stakes from his initial P10,720,000 in general damages he had demanded from the notice he issued against the State on August 19, 2022, to P19,160,800.

Matsheka ,who was arrested on August 2, 202, by DIS officers, its support staff, and members of the Botswana Police Service, says he was taken into custody without a warrant, detained unlawfully, treated as a dangerous criminal and as a flight risk, while there were no reasonable grounds for the murder offence. “The arrest was effected in bad faith in full view of members of the public and journalists, which were intended to humiliate and injure my feelings. Same was therefore without justifiable cause, malicious, wrongful, unlawful and injurious,” he said. As a result, Matsheka has taken action against the government, the Director General of the DIS Peter Magosi and the Commissioner of Police for the perp walk among other grievances.