Business transactions entered into by the former head of Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS) has come back to haunt the new leadership, who find it difficult to cancel some of the procurements. The latest controversy is around the procurement of a new spy plane Pilatus PC-24 twin jet engine aircraft which is currently parked in a hanger at Vonderboom national airport in Pretoria, South Africa since February this year. Swiss media outlets have recently been carrying stories bearing pictures of the new DISS airplane, the airplane bears Botswana flag colours and carries registration mark DS-1 and is assigned manufacturer serial number (114). The over P90 million 10 seater high-altitude spy aircraft is said to be affixed with the latest surveillance cameras with high-resolution and thermal-imaging capabilities and downlink that enables the plane’s crew to send real-time surveillance images anywhere in the country. The DISS already own two Pilatus PC-12NG aircrafts. The opposition Botswana Congress Party (BCP) has therefore called on the DISS to sell the new airplane, which is yet to be delivered in Botswana, arguing that it is not different from the current PC12-NG. "This raises the question, does the DISS need the PC-24 twin jet aircraft?”…