Government will wipe out undesirable immigrants – Khama

16 July, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi
BAME PIET
Staff Writer

President Ian Khama has told a three-day tourism conference in Gaborone that government will continue removing undesirable immigrants from Botswana as a way of making the country safe for citizens and investors.

He said at the – Tourism Pitso 2009 – that there are certain foreigners who come into the country to commit serious offences such as money laundering, human trafficking and drug peddling after taking advantage of loopholes in the immigration laws.

Khama was responding to requests from business people who wanted the processing of work permits and residence permits to be speeded up.

“The loopholes allowed a lot of undesirable people to settle in Botswana and we have rounded them up to tell them to leave,” he said. However, he regretted that [continue reading]