State Organs Do Get Used Against Opponents

It always surprises me when politicians get surprised when opponents use state machinery to rattle them. Rulers, in Africa especially, are notorious of using security organs to silence opponents.

If you follow politics, you would not be surprised by what has been happening in Botswana lately. It’s called politics, as prescribed in the famous political manual, The Art of War.

It therefore surprised me that when the opposition leader, Advocate Duma Boko was raided by officers from the Botswana Unified Revenue Services (BURS) for alleged tax evasion, there was an outcry. In the eyes of activists of the opposition coalition of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), President Mokgweetsi Masisi was dealing Boko a bad hand.  People were shocked. Why? That’s politics. In election year, nothing is surprising.

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