World Relays debacle: Athletics enters murky territory
Friday, May 09, 2025 | 1100 Views |
Fire-fighting: Theetso PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO Flashback: The victorious 4x400 men’s relay team
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) has become a reference point for disputes over allowances. Successive Zebras generations have been at loggerheads with the association for failing to timeously honour financial obligations.
This week, it was the turn of athletics, as Oabona Theetso, the BAA vice president-administration had a busy week trying to put out the fires in the media.
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...