sentences:  Subsequently he became Senior State Counsel in 1975, Principal State Counsel in 1978, and Deputy Attorney-General in 1980.He was appointed as Attorney-General in 1992; in that capacity, he advised the Cabinet and attended Cabinet meetings.When Joy Phumaphi resigned from Parliament in August 2003 to become Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization, Skelemani in turn resigned from his post as Attorney-General and stood as the BDP candidate in the by-election held in Phumaphi's former constituency, Francistown East.