Kgathi must be impeached

The issue of appropriations towards the military and the intelligence has always been a wider problem not only in the US but the world over. These two institutions have always insisted on running their own budgets with public funds. We don’t often get to hear that with the Ministry of Education or Home Affairs and when moneys are used without appropriations by such government arms, it is often followed by severe consequences by either Parliament or Congress.

Reports that Botswana Defence Force (BDF) and Directorate of Intelligence and Security have run their own budgets outside of government appropriations does not come as any surprise. The two institutions have traditionally maintained a high level of secrecy in the way they use public funds. This is to a point that the same legislators who are responsible for releasing the funds find themselves in a blind spot.