Thato Chwaane
1 April 2008
Acting managing director of Botswana Technology Centre (BOTEC) Nick Ndaba has been dismissed. Ndaba confirmed yesterday that he is no longer an employee of BOTEC.
A reliable source informed Mmegi that a meeting was called yesterday where BOTEC employees were told Ndaba is no longer with the organisation.
Reports say that Ndaba was given a letter and told to be out of the office by midday yesterday. Ndaba has been acting as managing director for the past 19 months. He has worked for BOTEC for 11 years. An insider at BOTEC said there will be no handing over to the new managing director.
The troubled BOTEC has been a subject of a commission of inquiry. Last year, employees were told that the organisation will not be merged with another technology body, RIPCO as planned. Instead, both BOTEC and RIPCO are scheduled for closure so that a new organisation takes their roles. Employees were told that retrenchment packages would be completed by September last year. But the move was abandoned in favour of restructuring. Now there is no merger or dissolution as BOTEC will continue as a separate entity after restructuring.
A Presidential Commission of Inquiry recommended the merger of BOTEC with a related institution with a new mandate. The recommendation was that BOTEC should be merged with another technology, research and development institution with new mandate and new programme-based structure.
The commission was appointed by President Festus Mogae in 2005 to investigate allegations of financial and administrative irregularities and corruption at BOTEC. The commission was appointed after a motion by MP for Gaborone West South, Robert Molefhabangwe.
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