Prisoner population increase breaks downward trend

Responding to a question in Parliament recently, Minister of Defence and Security Kagiso Mmusi said in the previous year, the number of citizen prisoners increased slightly whilst the number of foreign prisoners increased marginally.

Mmusi was responding to a question from Gaborone Central legislator, Tumisang Healy, who had asked the minister to state the number of prisoners in Botswana, split between citizens and foreigners, and the trend in the population over the five years.