Segokgo is clearly reinventing himself after losing several delinking exercise cases that junior soldiers launched against him. It is not surprising that Segokgo, who is represented by the Attorney General (AG) in his appeal, is now appealing the judgments of the High Court. The appeals have since been consolidated at Botswana’s apex court, Court of Appeal (CoA), to speed up the trial process and eliminate duplicative trials involving the same parties, issues and evidence.
According to the background of the lawsuits, in 2012, the BDF over which the second respondent (Segokgo) has superintendence embarked on an exercise which they referred to as delinking, as part of its retention strategy, developed pursuant to the Presidential Directive CAB 15(B) 2011. The implementation of the exercise involved having salaries of members of the BDF with certain and identified qualifications delinked from their ranks and linked to their qualifications. In all the cases, the applicants further said in 2019, the commander abandoned the implementation of the delinking and instead adopted and implemented the Permanent Secretary to the President’s Circular No. 1 of 2019, which effectively aligned the second respondent’s pay structure to the Public Service Unitary Pay Structure to cater for members’ entry level and progression.
