Officers ought to be extra cautious in their work

The 300 MW project hangs in the balance after it emerged that the company demands a P8.5 billion surety in the event Botswana Power Corporation(BPC) defaults in power purchase agreement. However, government officials are not sure how the clause in the contract came into being and they are as surprised as anybody who witnessed last month’s 6.5 earthquake.

It would appear that the Government officials have not learned from their past mistakes when handling multi-billion contracts such as this one. Through the project, we were hopeful that power shortages would be a thing of the past, especially after an embarrassing multi-billion Morupule B, which is now scheduled to be sold to a private company in the near future.