Simbi Phiri hints at setting up multi-million Pula water pipes plant in Botswana
Friday, January 08, 2021
Big plans: Khato Civils is eyeing a water pipe manufacturing plant in Botswana PIC: KHATO CIVIL
This is thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is making it too prohibitive for contractors to continue importing such materials from overseas in countries like Italy, China, or Brazil.
Water infrastructure expert and contractor, Khato Civils, have hinted they could set up a manufacturing plant in Botswana from which they would deliver water pipes to their multi-billion pula pipeline project in Malawi.
When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...