Khama added that to further strengthen our zero tolerance commitment to fighting corruption, the Whistle Blowing Act, which provides protection for those who help expose abuses, was approved in July 2016. It has become a norm that our SONA would be incomplete without quoting dubious TI reports. How this organisation arrives at these findings, especially about Botswana remains a myth. TI says it gives a voice to the victims and witnesses of corruption. It also claims that it works together with governments, businesses and citizens to stop the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals. But their methodology about exposing corruption is unclear. Despite these continued misinformation, many Batswana have resigned themselves to believing corruption is institutionalised. Just peep into the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) procurement to just know what institutionalised corruption is.
This is one institution, whose millions of pula, if not billions, tenders go to one family network of businesses. Does TI condone secrecy in how those tenders were and continue to be allocated? Does it accept that it is okay for the then leadership of the army to benefit from the same deals that the BDF was involved in? This organisation has the nerve to tell the whole world that Botswana is the least corrupt country in Africa.
