Gov�t misfires on Zim situation

The government has closed down an envisaged five hectars illegal migrants facility behind Sebele Mall that was allocated to Botswana Prisons Service, following the government’s miscalculations that Botswana will continue to recieve multitudes of illegal migrants from Zimbabwe owing to the country’s past political and economic situation.

Botswana had a keen interest in the Zimbabwean situation after the country recorded a record-breaking number of migrants in the 2008 disputed elections.

Mmegi investigations have revealed that the said facility behind Sebele Mall which has been lying idle for many years has now been closed down while the government is still pondering what it can now be used for, following a miscalculation on the end result of the Zimbabwean elections which SADC Observer Mission declared ‘free and credible.’

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