Monday before it resumes again sometimes in August. The eight member committee, chaired by Tati East Member of Parliament (MP) Guma Moyo, examined books of accounts of three parastatals; Water Utilities Corporation, Botswana Power Corporation and Statistics Botswana. The three institutions have serious issues and perhaps that is why the committee started with them. On Monday the Committee will call its last witness in respect of Statistics Botswana before winding up for now. In August, the committee is expected to call other parastatals for examinations. All seven Members of the committee attended albeit sporadically, especially for the ruling party Members. It could be that their early July elective congress is around the corner and some MPs are busy campaigning for positions or assisting their preferred candidates with their central committee ambitions.
According to Standing Order 110.1, the Committee consist of a Chairperson and seven Members and 110.2 provides that it shall examine the accounts of every statutory body which is required by law, to be laid before the National Assembly and such other accounts of statutory bodies laid before a Minister of the Government as required by any written law as shall be decided by the National Assembly. It is also the duty of the Committee to examine the accounts of any statutory body in the exercise of its oversight function. It has the mandate to examine the accounts of any company wherein the government is directly or indirectly a sole equity stakeholder and the accounts of any agency of the Government. The Committee also has jurisdiction over trusts, any body corporate of the Government and any state enterprise of the Government of Botswana.
