Those connected to government would then make requests for special allocations with a view to rehabilitate the land. It is this kind of fraud that appears to have escalated to other sectors of the economy. Today public enterprises are deliberately destroyed only to be taken over by multinational corporations handpicked by the government. The BCL is a clear case in point. Otherwise why would a normal government allow management of a state owned company to bring a profitable venture with huge savings to its knees in no time without timely and appropriate interventions?
Most of the state enterprises are run down on account of corruption, mismanagement, and misguided political interference. Elementary rules of governance are not followed. As a result a number of the parastatals are barely surviving. Naturally an animal in that situation attracts vultures that would be hovering around and taking positions to pounce on the carcass. As the public enterprises struggle to survive multi-national corporations and local parasitic capitalists are reading themselves to inherit that which they are not entitled to. There is massive looting of public enterprises that is taking place under the current regime. Deception, absence of consultation, and lack of transparency are at the centre of the mode of operation. Decisions on public assets disposal are mainly driven by greed. In Botswana today the interest of the ruling class has become synonymous with national interest. As comrade Kenny Kapinga correctly put it, the insecurity of the political leadership is treated as national insecurity.
