Councils are corrupt, inflation goes down

The Botswana Daily News of ThursdayJune 18 ran a screaming headline that "the Gaborone City Council is corrupt". To most people, that was no revelation.

We all know that councils around the country are very corrupt. Cases of council officials appearing before courts, some of them being convicted, is adequate proof that corruption is rampant in our councils.

What however makes the Daily News story something to ponder over is that, at least, now officials are waking up to the rot that is eating away at our public institutions. For a very long time senior officials hid behind a cloak of officialdom to diplomatically parry away allegations of corruption.

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