Sometime in 2006 it was revealed that Cabinet Minister Lesego Motsumi was being chauffeured to attend classes in a foreign country in a state vehicle. When the minister was confronted to confirm or deny the allegations, she went ballistic and bragged about her unfettered access to national resources. She boasted that it was her entitlement to use the vehicle as she pleases. Of course there was only a small amount of expressed public disapproval and the minister gladly got away with murder. In morally upright countries which demand that the leadership should lead by example, the minister would have been asked to tender a public apology or resign or better still risk being fired by the state president.
But this is our Botswana where the leadership and the elite are never wrong or put differently, where their wrongs are always right and harmless. It should be noted that Minister Motsumi's irresponsible and inconsiderate utterances bordered on extreme insubordination, which should be punishable by instant dismissal. It is highly possible that the minister is still enjoying her "right" to loot the national treasury, after all the Presidency office has remained mum, as though they approved of her misdeeds.
