DIS menace: why Minister Morwaeng is right
In this post I use the following abbreviations: ISS Act– Intelligence and Security Service Act. DIS – Directorate of Intelligence and Security. BDP – Botswana Democratic Party. Whenever Minister in the State Presidency, Kabo Morwaeng is quizzed by the press concerning alleged cruelty and other transgressions of the DIS, a spy agency in his ministry, he always defends the spy agency by claiming that it (the DIS) always acts according to the law. I have not heard him say what law, let alone whether such law is permissible under a democratic dispensation such as ours. I therefore can only assume that the law he is referring to is the Intelligence and Security Service (ISS) Act, Chapter 23:02, which Act established the DIS together with all its associated committees, council, community etc. Given that Minister Morwaeng is a lawyer by training, I have had to look at the ISS Act to gauge the truth or otherwise of his claims. What I found is profoundly shocking. The minister is rig...