Suspicious transactions at BR

The Botswana Railways has leased out a number of properties to various tenants without any signed agreements and the company is failing to collect rentals, says the Auditor General in his report for the year ended March 31 2009.

"It was observed that for some of these leases, signed lease agreements could not be produced, and in other cases where the lease agreements had been signed, it was noted that the rentals were not being paid".

The AG cited an instance in which a memorandum of agreement between BR and Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) had been sent for signature in 2006 and it still has not been signed or returned to date.  "In another case, rentals had not been paid for railway siding by a user since the inception of the lease in December 1989. 

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