24 Feb 2019

The Directorate of Intelligence and  Security (DIS), has refuted a story that appeared in the Mmegi newspaper dated February, 22  under the headline: They are Plotting to Kill Me.

The import of the story is that the DIS is out to kill its former director general, Mr Isaac Kgosi.

According to a press release from the DIS, the DIS acknowledges the courtesy by Mmegi to contact the DIS by press time regarding the subject of their enquiry which was communicated by them purportedly by Kgosi’s lawyers and later on received the same letter after the inquiry.

The DIS dismisses allegations carried in the story attributed to Kgosi adding that DIS was established by an Act of Parliament with the mandate to protect the interests of the nation.

It is not in the national interest for the DIS to kill Kgosi, let alone any citizen of Botswana.

Mr Kgosi aggressively confronted and photographed the DIS officers while on duty around Extension 5 area on February 22.

The same photographs have been published in the Mmegi newspaper. Mr Kgosi being the former head of the DIS knows that it is wrong to take pictures of DIS operatives on duty and distribute them to the public.  BGCIS