The Selebi Phikwe Economic Diversification Unit (SPEDU) and its former Human Resource and Administrative Executive, Gabriel Modise, are currently embroiled in a bitter legal tussle before the Francistown Industrial court. Modise has dragged SPEDU before court for unfair dismissal after he was sacked on April 4 2017. In his founding affidavit, he states that sometime in September 2016, The Patriot on Sunday published several reports concerning SPEDU, which stories involved Human Resource Department headed by Sidney Mmopele whom was Modise’s immediate supervisor then. “The reports led to Mmopele being temporarily suspended as he was accused of being the one who leaked confidential company information to the press. In November 2016, after Mmopele’s suspension was lifted, he called me to his office and asked me if I personally knew the author of the stories, Phillimon Mmeso,” Modise stated. He confirmed knowing Mmeso as they had attended the same school in the past, a revelation which infuriated Mmopele as he suspected that Modise was the one who leaked the information to the media. Since the altercation, Modise says the relationship between him and his supervisor became very sour. “Mmopele further accused me of trying to ruin his career by leaking information to…