Presentation of financials eludes BOKA meeting again

The meeting was a continuation of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) that was held a few weeks ago, where the financial report was not presented because of the absence of the treasurer. The last time an audited BOKA financial report was presented was in 2021. The treasurer, Kemmonye Seletamotse, was advised to go back and work on the report by the affiliates. The affiliates picked that some of the figures in the report were not correct and there were other corrections that should be made while other affiliates advised that she should have penned her signature to indicate that she owns the report.

In her remarks, Seletamotse told the meeting that the report was not audited. She explained that when they came into office, they were not able to secure financial statements from the previous committee. “We depended on invoices that were submitted to the Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC) from suppliers that BOKA owed. We struggled to find financial statements. After a few attempts we found information that indicated that the BOKA bank account had a negative balance. We do not have a record from April 2022 until January 2023. We did not have funds from sponsors, what we have on record is money we made through tournaments,” she said.