Biggie Ganda Butale (born 3 August 1972) is a Motswana politician and the current leader of the Botswana Republican Party (BRP) since 14 November 2023.
In addition, he served as a Member of the Pan African Parliament from 2014 to 2016 and concurrently held the position of chairman for the Parliamentary Committee on Justice, Defence & Security.
The scheme involved using a lookalike to receive the bribe money from a hotel representative while being filmed by operatives believed to be affiliated with the Directorate on Intelligence and Security Services (DISS).
The motive behind the plot was allegedly to damage Butale's reputation and hinder his campaign for the Deputy Secretary General position within the BDP.
Despite pressure to make an immediate arrest, DCEC officers, saw through the inconsistencies in the evidence and suspected foul play, forcing the plotters to abandon their plan.
[5] Butale, who had been convinced that the Directorate of Intelligence and Security was trailing him since before the 2019 elections, encountered the Botswana Unified Revenue Service later that year.
Upon returning from South Africa at the Ramotswa border post, he and his wife faced interrogation by customs officials, who alleged that they were carrying 'undisclosed and undeclared' amounts of money in their car.
Butale argues that the allegations were part of a calculated effort by his adversaries, attempting to create a damaging narrative that ultimately failed to materialize.