Should politicians steer cle
The Mayor of Francistown Godisang Radisigo recently won a tender to supply COVID-19 relief food from the Francistown City Council (FCC). The move set off a political firestorm with accusations that he may have used his position at the municipality to win
FRANCISTOWN: After Radisigo won the tender; his story became an instant sensation in the public, especially on social media because of his high profile public position.
A million pula question is whether it is not high time that Members of Parliament (MPs) and Councillors across the political party divide recuse themselves from participating in government tenders in order to curtail possible cases of corruption.
However, Radisigo ended up recusing himself from carrying out the tender because of what he called “negative reports in print and social media insinuating that he may have used his position to win the tender”.
The plight of Radisigo even reached the hallowed halls of Parliament recently during its second sitting to debate the gradual lifting of the State of Emergency.
During that sitting, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Eric Molale, categorically stated that Francistown’s number one citizen did not flout any laws to win the tender.
Molale even went further than that. He stated that even some opposition councillors, activists and a former MP in Francistown that he did not name have also won tenders to supply food and other necessities in