STATE House Chief Communications Specialist Clayson Hamasaka has accused former Botswana president Ian Khama of sponsoring a militia group in Zambia, alleging that some of the suspects in police custody are his relatives. Hamasaka has also described Khama as a hypocrite for failing to disclose his relationship with the suspects while publicly criticising President Hakainde Hichilema. He was responding to Khama’s recent characterisation of President Hichilema as “Africa’s newest dictator” and his questioning of Botswana’s decision to attend his inauguration in a circulating video. In a Facebook post on Sunday, which he later deleted, Hamasaka described Khama as the weirdest of all Botswana leaders, accusing him of meeting President Hichilema to lobby for his personal interests before branding him a...