Rari Sees Gross Negligence amidst rising covid cases in schools
Monday, February 22, 2021
Rari
Speaking at the end of a virtual meeting with the ministry of basic education and covid19 task team where they discussed covid19 pandemic in schools, Rari says their observation is that the Department of Public Health through the DHMTs is dropping the guard and compromising the standards and known COVID – 19 protocols when it comes to
schools. “There are many incidents where close contacts awaiting results would be required to go to schools environment and instances, where fumigations would not be done at all, yet schools are one of the most visited places in the community, by parents, by members of the PTA's, suppli-ers of essentials like food supplies; in most cases students who contract covid19 at schools take it to their homes after school.”
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...