MPs fail to pay rent

The Auditor-General report for the year ending March 31, 2008 found that there is no indication that the defaulters are being vigorously followed to pay up. The report says that MPs have accumulated P91,703 in arrears for electricity.

The existing arrangement for the settlement of electricity charges at the Parliamentary Village is that government pays Botswana Power Corporation then recovers the amount from MPs. "Members reimburse a portion of the bill calculated at 24 thebe per unit for electricity consumed in the individual member's flat," the report says.