'They are plotting to kill me'

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Former director general of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS), Isaac Kgosi, claims that he is aware that there is a resolution to assassinate him.

This has been disclosed in a five-page letter to the DIS, Botswana Police Service (BPS), Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS), Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC), Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Attorney General on February 20, 2019 marked highly confidential.

Kgosi claims that on February 18, 2019 he went for physiotherapy and two officers followed him into the clinic where they aggressively demanded from the receptionist that they be taken to him.

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'They are plotting to kill me'

Former director general of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS), Isaac Kgosi, claims that he is aware that there is a resolution to assassinate him.

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