Budget speech fails to account for 12 Billion, BOSETU
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Budget Speech not transparent in accounting for P12 billion drawn from Government investment account
Presenting at BOSETU’s budget review, National treasurer Samuel Aboneng said the
Provision of that transparency in the budget speech would have allayed Batswana’s fears and concerns of possible misuse or misallocation of the reserves from the Government Investment Account.
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...