President, please set me free – Inmate’s plea to Boko

Kgomotso Sekerese, an inmate at Gaborone Central Prison, is appealing directly to Boko to remit the remaining four years of his sentence, invoking the President’s constitutional powers to grant clemency. In a letter addressed to the President, Sekerese makes an emotional plea for his freedom, describing Boko as a “humanitarian” and “freedom fighter”. “My beloved humanitarian and also freedom fighter, Mr President, Advocate Duma Gideon Boko, I wish also to remit the remaining part of my imprisonment term as in terms with the best proviso of section 53 (D) of the Constitution of Botswana Chapter 1,” reads part of the letter.

Sekerese says he has yet to receive any response from the Office of the President. The plea for clemency comes against the backdrop of a bitter legal battle between Sekerese and the State over what he alleges was a vicious assault by prison officers.