Time for Mokaila step up and explain

Now that Seretse has resigned, all sorts of people will want to claim credit for forcing the man to account.  The media will want to believe that it forced the issue.  Politicians too, the corruption busters at DCEC, prosecutors at DPP and even President Khama might be privately saying he prevailed on his cousin to do the right thing.

The reality though, is that ever since that tabloid, The Voice, broke the story of Minister Seretse's company or a trading organisation owned by his wife and brother, did business with departments under his ministry, the minister is now under public scrutiny.  The said transaction forced the public to debate wider issues of declaration of assets.  This debate gained impetus to the extent that a Member of Parliament, we believe, got motivation from the discourse that ensued, tabled a motion to introduce declaration of assets for public leaders.  Although the motion was stymied in the internal workings of the ruling party, a national discourse had been initiated.