Presiding magistrate in the Matambo case at the Village Magistrate Court, Lenah Mokibe-Oahile yesterday made the decision to make the ruling next month, after Matambo's defence team made an application of exception to the charge sheet, which, they say, does not disclose an offence that he could be accused of. The defence, lead by Parks Tafa, moved therefore that the charges against Matambo be dismissed.
The charges against Matambo are that "between July 1, 2005 and September 30, 2005, in Gaborone, being a public officer, Managing Director of Botswana Development Corporation (BDC), a public body, whilst he had an indirect interest in a company called Tuwana Construction, in that the said company during the period in question, was constructing a house on Plot 2433, Extension 9, Gaborone, which plot belonged to Prosperity Holdings Pty Ltd, a company owned wholly by him and his wife, at a time when BDC proposed to deal with Tuwana Construction, knowingly failed to disclose to BDC the nature of such interest and participated in the proceedings of BDC corporation relating to such dealing, thereby acting corruptly."
