Saleshando denounces opening of firms in Phikwe

Speaking during an interview recently Gilson Saleshando said when government started a Financial Assistance Policy (FAP) project in efforts to diversify the economy, some of the investors took off with government money, while others failed to pay their workers and fled at night.

"One firm was given a cash injection of P34 million but it never came to open business here," said Saleshando.  He noted that as a result some factory shells constructed by BDC are white elephants, while a few have been rented out to garages with one being used by SPEDU and Talana farms. "It is a disaster. Raw materials and management teams were imported and their tenders were also won by international companies."