BDF Unhappy With One-year Financial Cycle

BDF Soldiers FILE PIC
BDF Soldiers FILE PIC

The leadership of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) has decried the one-year financial cycle system that they are currently using.

Addressing the on-going Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) last week, the BDF commander Lieutenant General Placid Segokgo said the current financial cycle duration of a year for BDF to facilitate their programmes is not adequate.

He disclosed that to purchase military equipment they need intensive engagements and acquisition hence the one-year financial cycle is not enough, forcing them to return the money as the year ends before procuring the desired equipments.

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