Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has expressed concern over what he called mind-blogging and horrifying levels of corruption in his country, APA can reveal Thursday.
Briefing the media, Masisi said revelations of unimaginable plunder of public coffers continued to pour into his office.
According to Masisi “there are too many very frustrating and inexplicable expenses, leakages and escalations of costs that cannot be not be ignored”.
He added: “I was horrified just before I went to Qatar to learn that yet another demand is being put to Botswana Meat Commission (BMC, which is a parastatal that exports the country’s beef to the European Market) approximately 48 million Pula (about $4.8 million USD) that seemed not to have been known, it just emerges. So one wonders how many more of these will come about”.
Masisi said he was far more resolute to eliminate corruption and ensure perpetrators were brought to book.
“I keep saying, if you have sticky fingers clean them now rather than postpone it. Corruption develops a system of its own, evading detection, but there will be no tiring on our part, we will catch those that we can catch,” he said.
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