He was further reported as advising the members of the National Assembly that these reports were not substantive saying that the fact that the government accepted them did not mean that their contents were conclusive. The Deputy Speaker apparently accepted this legal advice which she used to deciding how the Assembly should conduct its business.
On the 28th February Mmegi reported that Nick Ndaba, acting manager of BOTEC has been cleared of any wrong doing by the BOTEC Commission whose report was approved by the National Assembly within a day or so of hearing the opinions of Parliamentary Council in respect of such Commissions. If Counsel was correct, the BOTEC Commission couldn't possibly have cleared Ndaba. But if he were correct, why would the National Assembly have bothered to approve the BOTEC Report and why would anyone ever bother with Commissions of Inquiry, not least the President himself. It's all so strange that the best hope must be that the Gazette got it all wrong.
