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PKI Project not awarded Govt

This Office notes with deep dismay a misleading front page report in the 6th February 2015 edition of the Mmegi newspaper headlined P500 million stolen in which it is speculated that Government was allegedly fleeced P500 million for a project that was not completed.

The same Mmegi report goes on to falsely allege that “Vlatacom was awarded a closed contract of over P 500 million in 2010 to supply the Botswana government with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems.”

The plain fact of the matter is that no contract for PKI systems has, heretofore, been awarded to Vlatacom or for that matter any other company. It is therefore also not true that P500 million, or indeed any other amount, has been paid toward such a contract.

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