05/10/2026
MAGOSIβS CONTRACT EXTENSION WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL OF BATSWANA!
Gaborone- In October 2019, President Duma Gideon Boko looked DIS Director General Brigadier Peter Fana Magosi in the eye and called him out for interfering in elections during the presidential debate. Former President Seretse Khama Ian Khama made the same accusation. More damningly, our courts have repeatedly found that the DIS in general, and Peter Magosi in particular, acted unlawfully. In 2024, the Court of Appeal described the organization as acting as if it were a law unto itself.
With Brigadier Magosiβs contract expiring on 13th October 2026, as he himself confirmed to the Public Accounts Committee, President Boko and the UDC Government face a litmus test; can they stay true to their word on at least one fundamental reform?
The end of Magosiβs contract is not an administrative process. It is a strategic milestone. It offers the country a new chapter in national security, anchored in professionalism and institutional integrity. In an era of geopolitical conflict and severe economic hardship, Botswanaβs intelligence infrastructure must be fit for purpose and effective in protecting the Republic, not championing criminality.
The P. F. Magosi chapter should serve as a lesson in how an institution that is not bound by adequate safeguards can inflict serious damage, both reputationally and on the countryβs fiscus, the extent of which we have yet to establish. This is before we consider the extent of the damage caused by missed or misused opportunities in relation to its core mandate.
The BCP therefore calls on President Boko not only to let Brigadier Magosi go, but also to use this moment to fundamentally restructure the countryβs intelligence function and usher in a new dispensation whose loyalty is unquestionably to the Republic and to no one else.
It is critical that, when the Parliamentary Intelligence Committee announced in July 2026 formally commences its work, it does so under a new dispensation that guarantees accountability and upholds the highest standards of intelligence professionalism. Anything less would be a betrayal of the worst order to Batswana.
