BDC entangled in Toro Lodge lease controversy

A lease to run Toro Safari Lodge in Kasane belonging to Mamase Investments has been reinstated by the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) after it was terminated under controversial circumstances allegedly without the knowledge of the leasee.

Mamase Investments were in 2011 contracted by BDC to lease Toro Safari lodge after the corporation bought it for P22 million.

According to the owner of Mamase Investments, Jacob Masima, the lease was unclear and was terminated by BDC without his knowledge last year purportedly on the instruction of the lodge’s general manager, Moses Sichembe.

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