Tendering sleaze goes unabated

This publication has been reporting extensively that a local contractor was stopped from conducting work in the Selebi-Phikwe infrastructure programme as per the advice from the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS). 

If we may jog the mind of a loyal Mmegi reader, not too long ago a Chinese firm was also barred from doing an infrastructure project as the company was deemed a security risk by the same DIS. China Jiangsu International (Botswana) to be precise, were paid P112 million compensation to walk away having done nothing on the project. 

We ask this question: “Should it also follow that the local firm that won the SPEDU tender in Selebi-Phikwe quoted elsewhere in this publication be given a similar golden handshake and walk away?”

Editor's Comment
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