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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>resident Mokgweetsi Masisi has issued a direct warning to former president Ian Khama that his administration will retaliate against his continued attacks on the country\u2019s leadership and its government.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very painful to speak like this about our former leader but the time has come because of what he does and says against us. I have advised our ambassadors to stand up to his excess,\u201d said the President.<\/p>\n

In a leaked recording of the president\u2019s closed door address to delegates during the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) National Congress in Gaborone, Masisi doubled down on what he believes is the root of this conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust understand that he is only upset because I refused to appoint his younger brother Tshekedi Khama as my vice president. Khama has never really been a member of the BDP. He has been a member of himself and he is the ideal of what he wants,\u201d Masisi said while encouraging delegates to protect the party\u2019s republican ideals.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe says I want to kill him! He fled the country to our neighbours then went to report us at the United Nations, a place that he has never set foot inside before. In my tenure there has never been any instances of extra-judicial killings, during his reign there was. And because he supported ICC, he must be very cautious of the ICC because in extra-judicial killings there are cover-ups and those tend to get uncovered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Masisi added that he had no interest in trying to make Khama\u2019s life miserable but, \u201cHe must not go around pretending to be the paragon of virtue, honesty, and integrity because he is not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to Masisi\u2019s recording, Khama dismissed the allegations made in the<\/p>\n

leaked recording. He accused Masisi of never speaking the truth adding that there seems to be no end in his dishonesty. \u201cIt is my observation that Masisi has either suffered a cruel loss of memory in most if not all of the allegations he is levelling at me possibly due to mental breakdown. He has now chosen to throw scorpions toyed with the oath of secrecy as an established principle of good governance, twisted the facts and invented stories that he knew never happened,\u201d Khama said in a statement released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Botswana. resident Mokgweetsi Masisi has issued a direct warning to former president Ian Khama that his administration will retaliate against his continued attacks on the country\u2019s leadership and its government. \u201cIt\u2019s very painful to speak like this about our former leader but the time has come because of what he does and says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-10744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"\nGLOVES ARE OFF FOR KHAMA! - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"resident Mokgweetsi Masisi has issued a direct warning to former president Ian Khama that his administration will ret ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/gloves-are-off-for-khama\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GLOVES ARE OFF FOR KHAMA!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"resident Mokgweetsi Masisi has issued a direct warning to former president Ian Khama that his administration will ret ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/gloves-are-off-for-khama\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-22T17:30:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-22T17:53:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_9-62dae403681d5.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/gloves-are-off-for-khama#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/gloves-are-off-for-khama\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"GLOVES ARE OFF FOR KHAMA!\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-22T17:30:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-22T17:53:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/gloves-are-off-for-khama\"},\"wordCount\":397,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/gloves-are-off-for-khama#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_9-62dae403681d5.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/gloves-are-off-for-khama#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/gloves-are-off-for-khama\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/gloves-are-off-for-khama\",\"name\":\"GLOVES ARE OFF FOR KHAMA! 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