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Kudos to the DCEC team

Botswana is slowly joining the rest of Africa into the cancerous state of naivety that corruption and economic crime can quickly enrich people.

The young and old believe in get-rich fast schemes that ultimately land them in all sorts of trouble. Corruption has become so entrenched that some in both the private and public sectors have normalised corrupt behaviours as means of survival.

We would, however, like to shout kudos to the country’s corruption-busting agency, the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) head, Botlhale Makgekgenene, and her team members for their unrelenting efforts in combatting corruption, which, for a long time, had been threatening to ruin the struggling economy of our beloved Botswana.

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