Justice Key Dingake has voiced strong disapproval of the Presidential Constitutional Review process saying the approach starkly contrasts with international best practices by excluding vital stakeholders.
Dingake who is a former judge of the High Court in Botswana said when President Mokgweetsi Masisi established a Constitutional Review Commission led by former Chief Justice Maruping Dibotelo, Botswana lost a golden opportunity when it failed to adopt “a transformative constitution (which) would have to deal squarely with the distribution of power and break the overconcentration of power in one authority.”
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