Behind persuasive legal arguments by attorneys Nelson Ramaotwana and Onalethata Kambai, which on Tuesday won Kgosi Bana Sekai Linchwe freedom, is an untold story of how the Botswana Democratic Party-led Government singled out the Bakgatla royal for selective prosecution calculated to punish him for spurning its advances. Even after Gaborone Regional Magistrate, Mokwadi Gabanagae, discharged and acquitted him Sekai confessed that although he is a free man he lives in fear that the state machinery could concoct other charges or device strategies to ensnare him. "Mme Modimo o teng (God will protect me)," says a man who has evidently resigned himself to fate. The state case crumbled when Gabanagae found that contrary to constitutional provisions they cited, the DPP prosecutorial powers are not unfettered. Sekai and other 35 offenders were charged with Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm contrary to section 247 of the Penal Code of Botswana. In the intervening period there was separation of trials and reconciliation for all offenders. The process of reconciliation commenced on the 16th August 2012 and continued up to 13th March 2014. The state consented to reconciliation to all offences without exception and never raised any issue of offences under Section 247 being aggravated,…