Francistown mayor admits FCC misled nation

The COVID-19 relief food packages for Francistown have been kept at Aerodrome Primary School hall. Last Wednesday, the council was reluctant to comment on indications that it had started destroying some of the COVID-19 relief food items that were reportedly expired. That was after an investigative piece Mmegi published had indicated that close to 250 bags of maize meal were destroyed (last Wednesday) by the council at the Dumela Industrial site landfill after they were found to have reached their expiry date. 

The maize meal was part of the food items that were bought for the COVID-19 relief food initiative just before government changed its stance to say it will no longer give Batswana the relief food for May and June 2020. The food items were only issued out in April.