Mathokgwane appointed illegally- Boko
Staff Writer | Friday June 5, 2015 17:07
According to sources close to SPEDU, the position was allegedly created for former Member of Parliament for Goodhope-Mabule James Mathokgwane following his unexpected resignation from parliament.
“It is a deft piece of trickery played by the most corrupt and unscrupulous President and his hirelings,” said Boko in a statement released to Mmegi on Thursday. Boko alleges that an instruction to create the position came from the highest levels of Government and that the management of SPEDU was summoned to Gaborone about the issue.
He said: “In a matter of a few hours the position of Director of Regional Operations was conjured up from nowhere. It did not exist and was never part of the structure long approved by the Board. An emergency Board meeting scheduled for this past Monday was cancelled. It was intended as a platform to coerce the Board into sanctioning, ex post festem, this egregious abuse of power. Contrary to the falsehoods being fed the nation, there were no interviews for the position.”
The UDC leader said this regime acted in complete disregard of all procedure and propriety in creating a position that was never part of the organisational structure of SPEDU. He said this was never discussed and approved by the governing board of the organisation. The position commands a salary and a slew of benefits that were never part of the organisational repertoire of SPEDU, said Boko.
“All these were done with the complicity of a CEO who himself was a political appointee having been outperformed for the position by a more deserving candidate whose only downside was that he did not have any BDP membership. We know these things. They are an affront to any sense of justice and propriety. Trapped and enmeshed in the thrall of these unseen compulsions the target was stripped of all dignity and integrity. He became a willing hostage, ready to sing in his chains. He has joined a world of confused identities and sinister powers; of force and fraud,” said Boko.