Shop manager on `Khama charge` awaits verdict

source: The Botswana Gazette
Written by JFG
Friday, 03 July 2009 00:00

MAUN: Maun Choppies supermarket manager, Unni Bhaskaran, has to wait until July 10 to know his fate in a case in which he is facing charges of uttering disrespectful statements about President Seretse Khama Ian Khama.

Maun chief magistrate Clifford Foroma on Monday delayed delivering judgement in this case as Bhaskaran’s defence team asked for time to be availed and respond to the prosecutor’s submissions.

Bhaskaran was expecting to hear his judgement in a case in which he is tried for allegedly uttering disrespectful words to Elizabeth Anderson, a former employee of the Choppies supermarket that “she should go and ask permission to go to the toilet from Ian”, the words were said to have been intended to mock the President of Botswana.

During the trial Anderson told the court that some time April last year she asked his manager (Bhaskaran) for permission to go to the toilet but was told by the manager to ask permission from ‘Ian’.
She also told the court that previously in the same month she had also asked for [continue reading]

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