Officer reveals trauma of executions

Last Saturday, Florence Selaledi told the Minister for Labour and Home Affairs, Peter Siele that prison wardens are always traumatised after executions. Speaking at the Centre for Illegal Immigrants in Francistown, where Siele was meeting wardens at the end of his tour of prison facilities last Saturday afternoon, Selaledi said: "We are having problems Rre Siele, having to live with the reality that we are made to take care of inmates on death row and then expected to execute them. This is worrisome. Minister Siele, you will notice that it is so bad for us to continue rehabilitating inmates to the extent that we bond with them only to be expected to execute them", declared Selaledi.

She pointed out that the executions are not good for prison wardens and the arrangement should be changed. At the centre of her worries is the fact that they are not getting thorough counselling after executions.