Free Botswana from corruption - AP
The Alliance for Progressives ( AP) has challenged Batswana to free their country from the bondage of corruption.
The AP is concerned by the continued media reports on which President Mokgweetsi Masisi, his family, and associates always appear implicated in corruption. AP Publicity Secretary, Mmaotho Segotso says these developments concern the party. She said that they hold dear the principle of Good Governance, as stipulated in their Public Vision Theme One.
In it, the AP states that it will “assemble and cultivate the best leadership Botswana has ever experienced - a leadership that is inspired by a value system of integrity, honesty, and decency.” Segotso states that in the dissension, Masisi’s sister Boitumelo Phadi Mmutle, and nephew Olebile Pilane are fighting over a P550 million Goodhope water tender, with the latter lamenting “being cut out of the thievery, that he was promised 17 percent of the thievery monies.
“Spilling the beans, Pilane alleges that five percent of the tender money has already found itself in the black crime pot at Tsholetsa House. The same black pot into which years back, P3 million of the National Petroleum Fund landed and was squandered in the now President’s BDP Chairmanship campaign in Tonota’s Camp Dubai. The President has proved that inside him there never lived a good man.” She argued that President Masisi has never been a genuine leader, but a looter who awaited power to unleash himself. According to the AP spokesperson, the President’s sister is not new to tender thievery webs. As soon as her brother occupied the Office of the President, Phadi ‘ won’ the ARV tender, a controversy that saw the Ministry of Health fire Permanent Secretaries, their deputies, and directors faster than they could write ARV, she accused. Segotso pointed out that months back when the Directorate of Intelligence and Security ( DIS) Director pulled a heist on the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime ( DCEC), the then bullied and now suspended DCEC Director Tymon Katlholo, hiding in public, declared publicly that he was investigating high- profile individuals.
“A WUC tender was made mention of, the tender war has reached fever pitch and is now before the courts as the BDP executes its manifesto: “To lie and to steal,” the nation literally struggles to breath ( sic).
“Daily, people with chronic illnesses lose lives, families lose pillars, as the Government is unable to provide medicines for them. For the first time since polio, the nation experiences a high infant mortality rate; youth unemployment and consequent poverty are at an all- time high; families struggle to put bread on the table,” she said, adding that public servants have lost purchasing power, resulting in high household debt.