Over the years, our education system has always been just academic-oriented and has disfranchised multitudes of Batswana who failed Junior Certificate Education. Majority of these unfortunate people trudge the streets with a bleak future. They end up forced into menial jobs in which they are paid as low as P800 a month. If these people were equipped with artisan skills, they could earn between P7,000 and P20,000 a month. Hence Target 20,000 was introduced to address this shortage of skills in the country. However, the programme was consumed by greed that is a norm and rife in the public service. Some people in that ministry together with some corrupt institutions set out to plunder government coffers. The Directorate on Commercial and Economic Crimes (DCEC) should move against such people who have lined their pockets with ill-gotten funds.
We learn that there was this particular woman who made it a sleaze operation. She and her relative in that ministry would call some corrupt owners of institutions and negotiate how many students they will be given and how much cut she would get in return. This is how the students were allocated, and in fact, the relative would make side deals with institutions in exchange for his influence over his boss.
