Three arrested for stealing Ipelegeng funds

Friday, November 27, 2009

Three people were arrested this week for stealing government funds meant for Ipelegeng (Self-Reliance) programme for the poor. The two women and a man were reportedly assigned to recruit labourers for the programme in various wards in a populous village on the outskirts of Gaborone.

They are accused of conducting the exercise in a fraudulent manner. It is said that they put up to 100 names of people they had employed, while in reality they had recruited a lesser number - probably 70.

At month end, the trio would distribute payment cheques to the real labourers and the 'ghost' workers. "These ghost employees would then share the money with the recruiting officers when they have never gone to work," a source said.

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