KOBE DIRECTOR WANTS E5M FROM GOVT FOR HARRASSMENT

MBABANE – All that he wants now is compensation in the amount of E5 million. The Director of Kobe Advanced Learning Academy, Geoff Modise Ramokgadi, has instituted legal proceedings against government and the national commissioner of police after he was allegedly ill-treated and harassed by officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs and police officers.

When the Home Affairs officials and the police officers allegedly did all this, they were accusing Ramakgadi of being an illegal immigrant in the country. The E5 million he is now demanding is in respect of; unlawful and malicious conduct of the Home Affairs officials and the police, emotional shock and psychological trauma.

Ramakgadi is also the President of the Eswatini Jewish community, Vice President of the African Jewish Congress and owner of Xanadu Boutiques. In his particulars of claim, Ramokgadi stated that on July 26, 2018 he was wrongfully and unlawfully arrested by approximately 10 police officers who were accompanied by police officers.

According to Ramokgadi, the arrest took place at Kobe Ramokgadi Advanced Learning Academy during the day and in full view of 370 students at the school and 43 members of the school staff, a number of parents and passersby. “The police officers who effected the unlawful arrest, continued to unlawfully and maliciously detain me at Lobamba Police Station for a number of hours,” submitted Ramokgadi.

He alleged that at the police station, he was also coerced to pay an admission of guilt fine in the sum of E500 in order to gain liberty.
Ramokgadi asserted that in the course of the alleged unlawful detention, his fingerprints were unlawfully captured for police criminal records. He alleged that this happened without him having been taken through trial or being found guilty of committing any crime. 

Ramokgadi claimed that this was now affecting him in his business endeavours and his personal life, “The arrest and capturing of my fingerprints was wrongful and unlawful in that it was premised on a wrongful allegation by the officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs that I was an illegible immigrant,” contended the plaintiff (Ramokgadi).
He further contended that the police officers and the Home Affairs officials did all this to him despite the fact that he had remained in the country legally in that he religiously renewed his entry permit.
“Ever since 1983 and even upon my unlawful arrest, I had submitted an application timeously on February 7, 2017 for renewal, a fact the Home Affairs officials were alive to at the time of my arrest. That is why no order for my deportation was ever sought by the officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs,” he argued.

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