CTO ceases auction of P5m-worth spare parts

CTO offices in Gaborone
CTO offices in Gaborone

The Ministry of Transport and Communication’s accounting officer, Alicia Mokone has told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the auctioning of P5 million-worth of spare parts the Central Transport Organisation (CTO) had procured has been stopped.

Mokone said the reason why the auction stopped was due to the suspect processes in the millions of pula spent to procure the spare parts, whether bought or tendered, being investigated.

The issue came up after PAC chairperson, Dithapelo Keorapetse, wanted to know why CTO spent P5 million on spare parts when 263 private garages were already repairing government vehicles and what the purpose of stockpilling those parts was when they were not needed.

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