A funny old illegal world
Credit for the title's source is duly given to Mrs. Margaret Thatcher on her departure to give her resignation to the Queen, as reported by the BBC.
I have just read an article titled "The myth of the Masisi-Khama feud" in the latest Sunday Standard newspaper. The author of the article is not revealed. My views that the Khama-Masisi feud is NOT real have not changed. I still believe it is a ruse to hoard news space by the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP, aka Domi).
That said, I agree completely with the author of the Sunday Standard article. But the author made one big mistake: in his/her zeal to show how former president Ian Khama broke the law, and how President Mokgweetsi Masisi is merely applying the law, the author ignores a vital piece of information reported elsewhere in the same paper.
Just two pages prior, in a report titled "Francistown land scam syndicate slapped with heavy penalties", Joseph Balise quotes High Court Judge Lot Moroka (in passing judgement), as saying "If left in the hands of criminal syndicates, the proceeds of crime become a war chest from which criminal syndicates may buy influence. The dirty money may be laundered AS PARTY POITICAL FUNDING (my caps) and in the process capture state itself. A financially strong criminal is a threat to the security of any nation..."
Allegations have been made by the lawyer for Bakang Seretse that President Mokgweetsi Masisi's political victory at Tonota was partly facilitated by the very money for which Bakang and friends are currently standing trial - the National Petroleum Fund's (NPF) allegedly laundered P250 million. President Masisi has not denied that. All he says in his defence is that he had no business asking the donor, Bakang Seretse, from where he got the money. Bakang is after all a business man, Masisi claims.
So while I agree entirely with the author of the article vilifying Ian Khama and, unfortunately, exhonarating President Masisi, I would advise the author to avoid taking sides in the fictitious Khama/Masisi feud, else unowo musa zwilele. Khama is not my chief, even though he may think he is; Khama is blood, even though he may not know he is.
I have just read an article titled "The myth of the Masisi-Khama feud" in the latest Sunday Standard newspaper. The author of the article is not revealed. My views that the Khama-Masisi feud is NOT real have not changed. I still believe it is a ruse to hoard news space by the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP, aka Domi).
That said, I agree completely with the author of the Sunday Standard article. But the author made one big mistake: in his/her zeal to show how former president Ian Khama broke the law, and how President Mokgweetsi Masisi is merely applying the law, the author ignores a vital piece of information reported elsewhere in the same paper.
Just two pages prior, in a report titled "Francistown land scam syndicate slapped with heavy penalties", Joseph Balise quotes High Court Judge Lot Moroka (in passing judgement), as saying "If left in the hands of criminal syndicates, the proceeds of crime become a war chest from which criminal syndicates may buy influence. The dirty money may be laundered AS PARTY POITICAL FUNDING (my caps) and in the process capture state itself. A financially strong criminal is a threat to the security of any nation..."
Allegations have been made by the lawyer for Bakang Seretse that President Mokgweetsi Masisi's political victory at Tonota was partly facilitated by the very money for which Bakang and friends are currently standing trial - the National Petroleum Fund's (NPF) allegedly laundered P250 million. President Masisi has not denied that. All he says in his defence is that he had no business asking the donor, Bakang Seretse, from where he got the money. Bakang is after all a business man, Masisi claims.
So while I agree entirely with the author of the article vilifying Ian Khama and, unfortunately, exhonarating President Masisi, I would advise the author to avoid taking sides in the fictitious Khama/Masisi feud, else unowo musa zwilele. Khama is not my chief, even though he may think he is; Khama is blood, even though he may not know he is.
Comments
Post a Comment