Tshekedi Khama II

"I am not surprised because he came crying asking for help and promising to remove BDP from power but, after he got help, he defected to the same party he promised to remove."

"The law doesn’t exclude me from standing again. If they call a by-election again, there are many capable people in the BPF who can stand and win any day in Serowe, unlike the BDP."

"In politics there is nothing like kgosikgolo we are all equal."

"We are currently relaxing requirements for some of the former hunting concession areas with a view to allocating them for tourism development by Batswana."

"Three to Five sites are to be identified for tourism development within the Okavango Delta by Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) in partnership with Batswana."

"We will be reviving the annual tourism pitso to share with and guide Batswana on global tourism markets and create general awareness in the industry."

"We had the best intelligence unit in the country and the only wildlife intelligence unit in Africa specializing on wildlife. The reason they were the best is because they solely focused on wildlife and managed to contain poaching in the country."

"That is why in 2017 through our intelligence unit we managed to arrest DIS officers at Makalamabedi with ivory which they failed to account for."

"You cannot promote illegality and claim to be law abiding. I am an addict to the rule of law and cannot be associated with banditry and illegality. The stretch of imagination that I can be associated with illegality is utter nonsense."

"Remember that our Intelligence Unit once arrested DIS officers with ivory and they failed to account for it. We handed the case to the police and it just disappeared and when we enquired we were told kgang eo e ko bagolong."

"If we cannot protect our animals what about the citizens."

"I am ready to work with President Masisi to find solutions to the high rate of poaching because it is threatening our tourism industry. This is not a partisan issue but rather an issue of patriotism."

"They are now telling the poachers that they are helpless and are now running to the public for help."

"Many people say Magosi was hired to head the wildlife intelligence that is not true. Magosi never worked in my ministry. My request to hire Magosi was rejected and shot down with force by those who held power then."

"I was frustrated. I thought I had a big catch only to find that it was never meant to be. Magosi is not your regular guy. He is the cream of the crop. Young, talented, level headed and educated in his field and that’s the Intelligence I envisaged. He would have been well suited for what I had anticipated."

"I am surprised that for the DIS, P15 million can be authorised to fix the computers. What are we saying to Batswana?"

"Everybody knows my views on Kgosi and the way he was running the DIS. So, at the time Kgosi was fired by President Masisi, I decided not to engage my conscience about it. Let me leave it there."

"A lot happened but it is not important to delve into the past now as we now have a perfect relationship with the new director."

"it is still alive and doing its job but like I said I want people who can do the job, people who are capable and can match modern-day challenges and poachers."