MLHA complying with gov't requirements-AG
Thursday, April 15, 2010

The AG learnt during an audit inspection at Mahalapye offices of the Department of Civil and National Registration that the officers are not allowed to collect P100 fines charged for late application of the National Identity card.
The funds can only be collected by police officers, and in places where there are no police stations to collect such, it becomes impossible for DCNR to process IDs for new applicants.
It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...