Stop the unnecessary arrests!

Sonny Serite
Sonny Serite

Without whistleblowers, citizens’ ability to monitor those in power is diminished, writes JOEL KONOPO*. Hardly a year after the arrest of three Botswana Gazette journalists, the empire strikes again! Yet another worrying development. Another careless arrest of a journalist in a country considered Africa’s shining example of democracy and good governance.

This time, the Office of President onslaught on the private media happened so early into 2016.

Sonny Serite, a freelance journalist muck-racking for Botswana Gazette was stopped near the Office of President by two plain cloth officers and later locked up at Gaborone Police Station under Section 317 (2) of the Penal Code of 1986, which, in theory, when read with sub section 1 carries either a death sentence or 14 years in prison.

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