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Seeking win wins: Ottapathu PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE
The numbers gathered, analysed and produced monthly by Statistics Botswana don’t tell the full story.
For instance, the data agency’s figures say annual food inflation as at August was five percent, from 4.3% in July. The index assigns weights on various categories of food and measures the average movements in prices through the year.
When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...