You can�t be serious Mr Mooko

Mooko said this when he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee  (PAC) to explain the ministry’s expenditure for the 2015-2016 financial year. Mooko revealed that the Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF) is owed P2.4 billion by former students who are now working or are somewhere in the society.

Seriously, the PS and MoESD cannot be allowed to take the public for a fool, claiming ignorant of who owes the government, the taxpayer, monies they were lent to further their studies.  Of course, some may have long passed on without settling their debt to the nation, whilst others could be living large and abroad at the expense of poor Batswana. The amount that the DTEF is owed is more than enough to sponsor potential beneficiaries for tertiary education for at least three years. It is therefore, a source of concern when an officer says that their records are missing and they are unable to trace the debtors.