Gov�t to bear brunt of refugees� welfare
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Namibians are some of the refugees housed at Dukwi Refugee Camp
He was presenting his Ministry’s proposals for the National Development Plan 11. “The effect of this scaling down will result in a transfer of costs relating to welfare, health and education of refugees to the Botswana government,” he said. To deliver these services to over 2,000 refugees in the country, government will on average spend P20 million per annum.
Of the 2,113 asylum seekers at Dukwi Refugee Camp, majority are Namibians at 919, followed by 688 Zimbabweans, 312 Somalia nationals, 184 from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda and10 from Eritrea.
Particular trepidations lie with the seemingly embedded nature of embellishing tender sums, in most cases without the barest minimum of authority. The worrying thing is that the inflated amounts run into millions of pula across the government ministries and departments. The Auditor General’s report of March ending 2022, which we cover extensively in this edition, paints a gloomy picture on management of the government coffers. It depicts the...