MISA�s Rantao wants DCEC, DPP subpoenaed

Outsa Mokone
Outsa Mokone

LOBATSE: An attorney supporting Sunday Standard and its editor, Outsa Mokone, has pleaded with Justice Michael Leburu to summon directors of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC).

The lawyer, Tshiamo Rantao, appearing for the Media Institutte of Southern Africa (MISA Botswana as amicus curiae (friend of the court), wants the directors to appear in court in order to give evidence as to the progress of investigations involving intelligence and security agency director, Isaac Kgosi.

This is in a case in which the DCEC has dragged Sunday Standard and Mokone to court seeking an interdiction against the paper publishing details of a docket containing information in regard to investigations carried out against the head of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS), Kgosi.

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