Botswana: BTO Skeletons Tumble Out

19 September 2016

Skeletons came out tumbling out of Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) closest before the Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Bodies on Monday when the Executive Manager Jillian Blackbeard said that she was not aware of some of the contents of the P 17 m contract that she signed with GAFA Media - a travel and tours company in Dubai. When PCSB chairman Samson Moyo Guma asked her if she was aware that the contract she signed will run for five years not three years as she has earlier informed the committee, Blackbeard said she was not aware. "It was my mistake as I did not see the part which states that the contract will run until 2021," she answered naively.

Put to her that she was not supposed to sign the contract as there was no resolution from the board to engage GAFA Media and that the Chief Executive Officer didn't give the instructions to sign the deal. "I was under impression that the CEO gave me the instruction as he did not respond to the mail sent to him regarding the deal," said Blackbeard. A member of PCSB Pius Mokgware put it to her that she signed the contract as Executive Manager yet she was not yet appointed to the position, hence rendering the deal illegal.

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