DCEC defies court order

DCEC building in Gaborone
DCEC building in Gaborone

The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) has advertised the post for senior assistant director which was occupied by Poppy Monyatsi who was recently reinstated by the courts after successfully challenging her dismissal from work.

Monyatsi was dismissed in 2013 on accusations of “unbecoming conduct, neglect of duty, failure to obey lawful instructions, unauthorised absence from work, late coming, use of physical force on staff, plagiarising speeches, failure to carry out official assignments, abuse of government motor vehicles as well as verbal assaults on staff.”

The court in 2015, however, ruled in Monyatsi’s favour that the DCEC Director Rose Seretse and then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Eric Molale never afforded her a fair hearing. The duo was ordered to reinstate Monyatsi and pay her all the money she lost as a result.

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