'State enemy No.1' Salbany cleared
Friday, May 24, 2019
Carlos Salbany. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
This was four years after the DCEC laid a charge of obstructing the State agents from executing their duties against him. Regarded as once an ‘enemy’ of the State, Salbany was arrested and detained at Mogoditshane Police Station supposedly on a charge of obstructing the officers in their investigations back in 2015.
At the time, he was representing Botswana Gazette newspaper in a case in which the DCEC raided the offices of the publication in an attempt to stop it from publishing some information that involved a subject of an investigatoin by the graft busting agency.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...