
The Director General of Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS) Isaac Kgosi and his team have been left embarrassed after they were caught off guard by intelligence agents from Tourism Intelligence Services (TIS) of Department of Wildlife and National Parks. Information gathered and confirmed by some senior officers at DISS has shown that the recent arrest of DISS agents by TIS was a ploy by the latter to embarrass the former and show their incompetence. Three DISS agents were arrested at Makalamabedi cordon gate with some ivory and taken to the police station for detention. Sometime in March, DISS is said to have received a tip-off that some of their officers based in Maun and Kasane were now collaborating with poachers to steal ivory. “A team of covert agents were assigned to follow up the case and they discovered where they were hiding the concealment,” revealed a source at DISS. Early in April, DISS Director Kgosi informed DWNP Director Major General Otisitswe Tiroyamodimo about their operations as they are the custodian of the wildlife trophies. Kgosi’s blunder This is said to have been Kgosi’s greatest blunder as TIS used the information to carry out to humiliate his organisation. Kgosi…