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PAGE 6 “Kitso ke maatla” MAGOSI WANTEDMASISI WAITS ME TO SNITCHFOR DPP REPORT ON ON ISAAC “BUTTERKGOSI FLY” CASE • OP says DPP will advise President on –“BUTTERFLy” “Butterfly” Court Orders • Says Magosi promised she would • DPP is reportedly preparing Tiroyakgosi mayrot also in be jailstruck if off she the Law did Society not register to appeal • “No P48m was ever transferred • DCEC warned Masisi against into my accounts” PAGES 14 STORY ON PAGE 2 “Butterfly” case BDP COUNCILLORS LASH OUT AT KWAPE ABRASIVE THEIR MPS The recent purchase of Tautona Lodge by the government is the latest source of the OVER SA’s “clarITy” anger of BDP councillors who took to their WhatsApp group with messages and voice notes in which they say defending the party has become a big ask because their MPs are IN P100BN CASE bootlickers who are too eager to please the President. 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PAGE 2 NEWS WEDNESDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2021 THE BOTSWANA GAZETTE Masisi waits for DPP report on “Butterfly” case • OP says DPP will advise President on “Butterfly”court orders • DPP is reportedly preparing to appeal • DCEC warned Masisi against “Butterfly” case BPS fines Lelatisitswe family LETLHOGILE MPUANG But President Masisi might have to wait for some time before he receives such a he Office of the President (OP) report because reports suggest that the for unlawful gathering says President Mokgweetsi Masisi DPP is working on launching an appeal Tis waiting for the advice of the Di- against Justice Kebonang’s orders. While rectorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) re- Tiroyakgosi was not available for com- • MP Lelatisitswe apologises to President and nation garding implementation of orders made in ment on Tuesday, sources close to the case the judgment of the “Butterfly” case say the idea of appealing the case has al- • Man believed to be MP’s brother pays P5K fine Delivering the judgment late last month, ready been discussed. SESUPO RANTSIMAKO Justice Zein Kebonang of the Gaborone MASISI WAS WARNED AGAINST High Court concluded that the evidence BUTTERFLY CASE? otswana Police Service (BPS) has charged the family of the MP for Boteti presented before the court against sus- Katlholo informed the Parliamentary East, Sethomo Lelatisitswe, with unlawful gathering, ending speculation about pended DIS agent Welheminah Maswabi, Accounts Committee (PAC) in mid-2020 whether State of Emergency (SoE) rules and regulations are applied selectively. code-named “Butterfly,” was fabricated that the corruption busting agency did not B Although BPS spokesman Dipheko Motube said he was not in a position to reveal and falsified. have enough evidence to go ahead with the the identity of the person who paid the P5 000 fine, he said it was a 55-year old man He ordered that the judgment be availed case. So too did his predecessor Brigadier believed to be the MP’s elder brother. “I can confirm that we have charged a 55-year to President Masisi to take action against Joseph Mathambo and his right hand man old man of Letlhakane Village for unlawful gathering,” Motube said. The man was DPP head Stephen Tiroyakgosi while the Joao Salbany who are said to have advised fined P5 000 and paid immediately. I am not sure how he is related to the MP but I head of the Directorate on Corruption and President Masisi and former Permanent think he is his older brother.” Economic Crime Tymon Katlholo was or- Secretary to the President (PSP) Elias Ma- The charge and fine followed public outrage over the MP’s Facebook posts of peo- dered to take disciplinary measures against gosi that the intelligence received from the ple gathered for a tombstone unveiling at Lelatisitswe’s father’s gravesite in Letl- investigator Jako Hubona and prosecutor DIS on “Butterfly was not good enough to hakane, which was in contravention of SoE rules and regulations. Priscilla Israel. stand as evidence before the courts.” In the face of the public outrage that ensued, the MP for Boteti East soon deleted Asked if Masisi would act on the court The two also warned that it would be the posts, distanced himself from them and apologised to President Mokgweesti Ma- orders, government spokesman Andrew suicidal for the DPP to proceed with the sisi and the nation. “I wish to posit that I personally did not share anything or even Sesinyi said the President could only act case before sufficient evidence was gath- respond to any comments,” he stated in his apology. “My Facebook official adminis- after receiving a report from the DPP. ered. trator did without prior consultation as it is the norm. Immediately I learned about the “The Directorate of Public Prosecutions Even so, it is believed that one of the post and comments, I instructed for the post to be removed from my official page.” has full jurisdiction to address your inqui- reasons for firing Mathambo from DCEC “For those who know my family, we are a law abiding citizens. We will never at any ries – including, if they so wish - any fur- was his refusal to register the “Butterfly” point defy or undermine the President’s efforts or those of the COVID-19 situation so ther actions the oversight institution may case in the DCEC case system. Mathambo that Batswana could go back to their normal life.” be contemplating.” refused to engage over the subject, saying Since last year, BPS has come under the spotlight after it failed to charge certain “The appointing authority acts on as- that he has closed and made peace with his prominent people for holding events that contravened SoE rules and regulations. sessment and advice from the various ju- chapter with the DCEC. These include a meeting of the central committee of the Botswana Democratic Party risdictions therein referred to by the judg- However, Katlholo says he is not in that took place during a lockdown last year. ment. The DPP remains answerable within any position to say whether he has ever Another case involved a service in memory of a BDP member in Francistown that his jurisdiction, and so do other oversight advised against the case in President Ma- was led by the Secretary General of the party, Mpho Balopi. The BDP eventually institutions.” sisi’s presence. apologised to the nation for violating SoE regulations. BDP councillors lash out at their MPs The recent purchase of Tautona Lodge by the government is the latest emerge,” the councillor said. “The recent issue of consultation because we are a par- source of the anger of BDP councillors who took to their WhatsApp group procurement of Tautona Lodge was un- ty that believes in engagement.” necessary. How do you use such kind of In yet another audio, a councillor says with messages and voice notes in which they say defending the party has money to procure a lodge when there is an their MPs prefer bootlicking to advis- outcry over shortage of COVID-19 vac- ing the President correctly. “People have become a big ask because their MPs are bootlickers who are too eager cines in the country? changed and no longer want to be as- to please the President. Staff Writer SESUPO RANTSIMAKO reports “Most Batswana expected a lot from the sociated with the BDP,” he says. “We as current government but they are disap- councillors know this because we are on ouncillors of the ruling Botswana ment procedures were followed. pointed because of these ill-advised deci- the ground. Our MPs must stand up and Democratic Party (BDP) country- However, BDP councillors subsequently sions. What is even more frustrating is scrutinise some of these decisions that are wide have described their respec- criticised their MPs for approving the pur- that our leaders seem to be fighting among brought to them by ministers because they C themselves. Our ministers are even failing put our party on the wrong side of Batswa- tive MPs as self-serving bootlickers who chase at a time when the country is strug- pass draconian bills into law and support gling financially due to the COVID-19 to answer simple parliamentary questions na. How could they approve P58 million bad decisions to please their master with- pandemic. because they seem programmed to please for procurement of a lodge while a lot of out consideration of the impact on the na- In voice notes leaked from the BDP the master.” issues deserve being prioritised?” tion. councillor’s WhatsApp group, they say In another leaked voice note, a male Reached for comment, BDP spokesman According to a member of a BDP coun- their MPs should have objected to the pur- councillor says while some Domkrag MPs Kagelelo Kentse confirmed knowledge cillors’ WhatsApp group, their latest out- chase. In one of the voice notes, a female always differ with the opposition when of voice notes that are allegedly from ag- rage was provoked by acquisition of Tau- councillor says most decisions taken under debating motions, they either abstain or grieved councillors of the party. “I have tona Lodge in Gantsi for P58 million in the State of Emergency (SoE) are ques- leave the discussion when matters are put personally listened to the trending voice the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic by tionable and that defending the BDP has to a vote.