Former Minister of Local Government Lands and Housing, Jacob Nkate is the type of character capable of openly contradicting a sworn statement he made of his own free will even before a full court - this is the picture that the prosecution sought to paint yesterday as the Nchindo corruption reaches its final stage. Nkate's credibility was put to question by the prosecution when the Directorate of Public Prosecution's Senior Prosecutor Matshwenyego Phuthego cross examined Directorate of Corruption and Economic Crime former head Tymon Katlholo. Nkate who was supposed to have been one of the major prosecution witnesses dumped them in October when he openly contradicted a sworn statement he had given to Katlholo indicating that when he allocated TDC a plot he had been under the impression that the company was a vehicle of Debswana's tourism drive and not the private business of the late Louis Nchindo.
Katlholo, led by Phuthego said he asked Nkate to consider documents submitted to him relating to the application for the controversial plot, company registration documents and others and draw from them, a perspective on the procedure of allocation of the plot to TDC and to relate the procedure to be followed for the allocation.
