Only dikgosi can flog – Kgosi Sekai
Monday, May 23, 2022 | 120 Views |

Kgosi Bana Sekai.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Botswana Institute for Reintegration and Rehabilitation of Offenders (BIRRO) boot camp at Tlhagale, just near Mosaditshwene made headlines with the chairperson, Mothei Sejakgomo admitting to flogging delinquents at the camp.
Sejakgomo and his team are accused of abuse in administering corporal punishment extremely, as well as verbal abuse amongst others. He has since defended his methods and believes he is rescuing many young people from ending up in prison.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...