Lesedi Molapisi’s father pleads for prayers
Goitsemodimo Mopapisi, the father of Lesedi Molapisi who has been sentenced to death for drug smuggling in Bangladash is pleading for prayers from Batswana at large.
In an interview with The Midweek Sun, Goitsemodimo said he was staying with his unemployed daughter Lesedi in Shakawe and on the 18th of January 2022 his daughter left home, saying she had found a ‘piece job’ in Gaborone.
“This was the last time I saw and heard my daughter’s voice, until news reached us through social media that she had been arrested in Bangladesh.”
Molapisi says Lesedi was raised in a Christian home. He said it is disheartening to them as a family, as they have not seen their daughter for three years and are still hoping that she will return home one day.
“Our hope is in God and prayers from Batswana,” he said, adding that this is a situation that he does not wish for any parent to experience.
Lesedi is the second child of the three children he has with his wife.
Last week, President Mokgweetsi Masisi told the media that as much as Botswana respects sovereignty of other countries, government will provide financial support to enable a final appeal by an international human rights organisation in Lesedi’s case.
President Masisi said that government would also provide counselling for the family.
Lesedi was arrested on January 23, 2022 at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with over 3.145 kg of heroin. The death penalty was passed last week Monday by Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Aminul Islam of Court Number-8, Dhaka.