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Khama’s privileges falling, FAST

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• Limited free ride on OK1 • His henchman fired • Security detail cut • Masisi reverses policies, key appointments • Khama’s loyalists angry at developments • A fight back from the aggrieved expected STAFF WRITER editors@thepatriot.co.bw Former President Ian Khama’s privileges are falling faster than most had anticipated and claims are rife that this has created tension with his successor. And as things stand, with power no longer in his hands, there is little he can do about his circumstances. While most had assumed that transition will be part of the honeymoon phase where the incoming leadership would be guarded; that has not been the case. In fact, sources have revealed that the tension began well before President Mokgweetsi Masisi was inaugurated. While Khama had managed to put together a special retirement package for himself allowing various special privileges what he couldn’t control was that a lot of such benefits were to rely on the goodwill of his successor, the incumbent president. A lot could have gone well for him if the head of the feared Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS) his close ally and confidante Isaac Kgosi had remained in the post. But disaster struck when…

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