Rebuttal - Our Hands Have No Stain
Thursday, July 02, 2020
Our Hands Have No Stain
We consider the article to be defamatory and that it has been calculated by the author to not just misinform your readers about my wife and I, but to be also deliberately so malicious as to tarnish our good name and reputation in the construction industry and in the great Republic of Botswana.
The suggestion that we were ever “fired” from Sunshine Construction is false and just ridiculous. We decided to leave Sunshine Construction in 2017 in order to operate our own business in Botswana. However, the founder and majority shareholder of Sunshine Construction, Mr. Jian Liu requested and persuaded us to stay on in order to complete some of the projects that were ongoing that we had helped the company to achieve and that I was personally in charge of as the General Manager and minor shareholder of the Company. In good faith we agreed to stay on as we did..
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...