Victim Of Own Circumstance: Judge Tells Bail Applicant

Victim Of Own Circumstance: Judge Tells Bail Applicant
Victim Of Own Circumstance: Judge Tells Bail Applicant

FRANCISTOWN: “How can the court trust and grant you bail since you are an undocumented illegal immigrant who has no respect for Botswana’s Immigration Act?” Justice Bengbame Sechele asked an illegal immigrant from Zimbabwe on Friday who had applied for bail pending trial.

Sechele bluntly told the applicant, Phumulani Ndebele, that he was not a good candidate for bail since Ndebele has shown Botswana’s Immigration laws the middle finger when he crossed to Botswana illegally and thereafter committed crimes during his illegal stay in the country.

Ndebele is facing a count of robbery.

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