“I was coming from a leave”- Motlalekgosi Fired Commissioner of Prisons, Colonel Silas Motlalekgosi has accepted the controversial decision to relieve him of his duties although it came as a shock. Motlalekgosi’s dismissal letter dated 4th February 2021 and signed by Permanent Secretary to the President, Elias Magosi, states that the President has exercised the powers vested in him by Section 8 of the Prisons (Amendment) Act No. 14 of 2017 to retire him from Botswana Prisons Service with immediate effect. Although the decision to retire Motlalekgosi from a position he occupied since 2008 seems to have caught him by surprise, the former commissioner told this publication that he has accepted his fate.