Botswana: OP Sets Record Straight

Gaborone — The Office of President says it has "once more noted with concern the tendency on the part of some in the private media to constantly seek to undermine public confidence in not only the Presidency, but the institutional structures of the State as a whole through the continued publication of blatant fabrications and outright lies, as well as a steady stream innuendo."

A press release from the office states that "an especially extreme example of this pattern can be found on the front page of this week's (7/10/15) edition of the Botswana Gazette newspaper, which makes the extraordinary claim that P279 billion in State revenue was somehow lost during Khama's term in office while further stating that investigations suggest that P42 billion alone may have been lost in 2015 owing to corruption and money unaccounted for by government."

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