. . . but Sekoai says allegations are false

LT: He also says you were victimising him for refusing to sign what he said were illegal transactions.

Sekoai: I don’t know what he is talking about. I never asked him to sign anything illegal.

LT: How about the allegations that you kicked him out of a meeting on June 23? Sekoai: I did not kick him out. I simply asked him not to attend the meeting. But it was not done in a humiliating or de­grading manner that he alleges.

LT: Why did you ask him not to attend the meeting?

Sekoai: Because there were some work-related issues that concerned him that I was not happy about.

LT: How about his allegations that you tried to run him over with your car?

Sekoai: I don’t know where he is getting that. I was not even driving that car. Af­ter he made those allegations my driver actually took exception to his allegations.

I merely opened the door and asked him who he had been working with on plans to organise accommodation for a foreign judge we had hired. He paused for a mo­ment after that question but he eventu­ally did not say anything so I drove off.

LT: Other High Court workers say they have not been allowed to attend courses.

Sekoai: It’s true that training has been stopped. It is government policy this year. There is no money for training. A memo was issued to every government depart­ment to say there will be no training. The memo said international trips were a no-go area. So this has nothing to do with me as the registrar.

LT: One assistant registrar told us that last month you called a meeting were you told workers that they must stop having private meetings or you would dismiss them. Is this true?

Sekoai: Those meetings had been go­ing on for some time and it had come to a situation where they were disrupting work. In those meetings they would dis­cuss some unfounded allegations against me. They were discussing ways of remov­ing me. They were spreading lies to a poor congregation.

LT: How about allegations that workers don’t have basics like stationery and re­cording equipment?

Sekoai: We used to have that problem. We were struggling to fund our running costs. Last week we got some interven­tion from finance and we might soon to be able to get some stationery. Our record­ing equipment is very old and there are efforts to get it replaced.