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BPC takes it on the chin as Mado26 launches

David Kgoboko. PIC KENNEDY RAMOKONE
David Kgoboko. PIC KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Botswana Power Corporation's (BPC) Masa 2020 strategy, a five-year transformational programme, was not successfully implemented, BusinessMonitor has learnt.

Speaking at the launch of the new Maduo26 strategy last week, the BPC board chair, Professor Oboetswe Motsamai said the corporation was unable to achieve goals set in the previous strategy for various reasons.

Masa 2020 strategy, which ended on March 31, 2021, envisaged the BPC as a profitable entity free from reliance on government.

Editor's Comment
Get back what was stolen, and lock the door

That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...

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