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BCP demands release of audit names, entities

Dumelang Saleshando . PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Dumelang Saleshando . PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Botswana Congress Party (BCP) president Dumelang Saleshando has questioned the secrecy surrounding the long-awaited forensic audit report, demanding that the government immediately release the names of individuals implicated and make the full report public.

Addressing the media this week, Saleshando argued that Batswana deserve full transparency because the audit was commissioned using the taxpayers’ money.

“We paid for this audit, and Batswana need to know what their money was used for,” Saleshando said.

Editor's Comment
Let the courts follow the money

“Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.”– B.R. AmbedkarThe amount of money at play threatens to test the integrity of the country’s financial system, giving more reason to why the courts must be fully given leeway to lean on the matter and reach a conclusion.Botswana has spent decades building her reputation as a stable and credible financial jurisdiction.The...

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