Kgosi Arrest Drama

While the charges against Kgosi were still to be proffered, with speculation that he was investigated for tax evasion, the new spy chief, Brigadier Fana Magosi did the unthinkable. He released the former from a night in a holding cell at the Botswana Defence Force barracks in Mogoditshane, for being “co-operative”.

This left a bitter taste as many wondered if any other citizen had threatened, publicly, to overthrow the government and even insulted the President, such a person would have been treated differently. In our naivety, most of us believed what Kgosi said would attract treason charges. We were mistaken, just as we could be mistaken to the motive and intention with the high profile arrest.  In fact, many of us mistakenly assumed Kgosi’s principal for the many decades of their lives in public office, former president Ian Khama was next. We assumed wrong.