Monageng admitted that he gave the Francistown Senior Branch Manager, Racious Moilamashi Moatshe an envelope containing P2 500 but he denied that it was a bribe.
Monageng stressed that he gave the envelope to Moatshe for the CEDA employees who helped to process the loan.
"I never said it was for him, personally. When I said you people have helped me, I meant the organization. There are many employees at CEDA who helped. He is not the one who approved the project. The loan was approved by the chief executive officer," he said.
Information before court says that on August 18, 2005, Monageng tried to bribe Moatshe by handing him an envelope containing P2 500.
Monageng denies ever trying to bribe the manager. He told the court that the only relationship that he had with Moatshe was that of client and service provider.
The accused said that he received an offer letter for additional funds from CEDA. He went to the offices to discuss the offer.
He said that before the meeting date, he realised that there were some mistakes on the offer letter.
"There was a mismatch. The allocation was not what was requested and when I got to the meeting, I brought that up and the manager said that he would make the corrections," he said.
He said that after discussing the offer letter, he asked Mogale to leave because he had complaints about him.
"I asked Mr. Mogale to leave because I wanted to complain to the manager about him. I had received information when I was in Gaborone that CEDA officials were at the guesthouse getting serial numbers from television sets and other electronic appliances without my consent," he said.
"I then told him that I had brought a gift as a token of my appreciation and he told me that he did not take gifts," he said.
Monageng denies ever receiving the letter that was before court. The letter was addressed to him stating the procedures to be followed when giving a gift to an employee.
"The only thing I received was the telephone of the manager saying that I should channel gifts to the CEO and I told him to pass that to the CEO since he had it with him already," he said. Monageng said the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC), which is prosecuting, questioned him further.
Monageng denies ever having any conversations with Moatshe about bribery. He says that the only time he ever met with Moatshe alone was in 2003 in Moatshe's office.
"I never called him on the phone. I never made visits to his house and I do not know if he has any children," said Monageng.
When Moatshe gave evidence on 5 March, the court heard that Monageng's application for a P500,000 loan was approved to set up a guesthouse. He later applied for an additional loan of P66,690.
Moatshe also told the court that the accused was not repaying regularly as he had stopped paying by stop order.
He further told the court that it was not the first time that the accused had tried to bribe CEDA employees.
"At the time he was loaned P500,000 he pointed out that he had already used P70,000 out of his pocket and that CEDA was going to refund him the money. But he said that out of the whole amount he needed 55 percent. The rest, 45 percent was ours," he said.
He said that at one time the accused told him to make the additional loan of P66,690 directly to him and not, according to procedure, to the supplier.
Monageng said there was no way he could have asked for the loan to be dispensed to him because it was not his first loan.
"It was my second loan. I'm familiar with the procedures which apply to CEDA loans," he said.
