As president and ex-officio commander of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF), Mokgweetsi Masisi is favoured with the most sensitive, most up-to-date intelligence. That has happened with all his four predecessors but at a party rally in Goodhope, Masisi did something that none of the latter ever did. Not only did he call a cabinet minister and former Permanent Secretary to the President, Eric Molale, to the stage to divulge state secrets, he promised to spill more secrets himself. In the process of countering what the minister said, a former BDF commander also revealed more secrets. At the rate secrets are pouring out, it may be just a matter of time before the locations of Botswana’s fleet of nuclear submarines as well as the payload of the Mach 10 hypersonic electric missiles that were assembled domestically become public knowledge.
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