How Mmegi stories helped FCC

Francistown Civic Center PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG
Francistown Civic Center PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

FRANCISTOWN: When Mmegi first broke the story that the beleaguered Francistown City Council (FCC) supplies department was feeding primary school pupils with rotten food, there was denial, concealment and deceit.

The knee-jerk reaction from some senior council officials was dismissive and rubbished any claims of the council ever supplying rotten food to the schools.  Interestingly, it was claimed that professionals who knew what to do at any given time manned the supplies chain management.

Even before the ink dried after publishing the initial story, breaking the difficulties the council was facing in handling the foodstuffs at the schools and at the main warehouse supplying the schools, the information was pouring in that the council’s supply chain management was flawed.

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