DIS keeps Masisi oblivious on SPEDU probe

President Masisi delivering SONA PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
President Masisi delivering SONA PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

The Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) did not brief President Mokgweetsi Masisi about its investigation of SPEDU Industrial and Urban Agriculture Land Service project before he highlighted the matter in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last week, Mmegi has learnt.

Delivering SONA, Masisi informed the nation about SPEDU Industrial and Urban Agriculture Land Service project, a 3,500-job development, but he did not highlight that the project has been put on hold.

Sources close to the President deny that DIS has ever informed him that the agency was investigating how the project was awarded. Also, the Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services did not inform the President’s speechwriters about the DIS investigation of the project.

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