Modenga detained on fraud charges

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

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Former Francistown deputy mayor, Lechedzani Modenga has been detained after been arrested while attending the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) congress on Saturday on four more charges of obtaining by false pretences.

The councillor for Moselewapula ward appeared before Broadhurst Magistrate Lilian Madabane.

It is alleged that he currently has three pending cases of obtaining by false pretences before Francistown magistrate court.

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Modenga detained on fraud charges

Former Francistown deputy mayor, Lechedzani Modenga has been detained after been arrested while attending the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) congress on Saturday on four more charges of obtaining by false pretences.