Boko withholds long-awaited graft report

President Duma Boko’s long-awaited forensic audit has yet to reach Botswana’s principal law-enforcement agencies, months after he received the report and warned that heads would roll over wrongdoing uncovered by the investigation. The Botswana Gazette reports that Boko officially received the forensic audit report on 30 April from Moses Pelaelo, chairman of the Project Steering Committee. The investigation, conducted by international firm Alvarez & Marsal Middle East Limited, covered the period from 2014 to 2024 and was presented as a major examination of alleged corruption and financial misconduct during the decade. Yet officials heading key institutions responsible for investigating and prosecuting corruption have publicly said they have no knowledge of the report and are not investigating or prosecuting matters arising from it. Among them are Director of Public Prosecutions Kgosietsile Ngakayagae, Attorney-General Dick Bayford, Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime director general Botlhale Makgekgenene and Police Commissioner Dinah Marathe. Boko has argued that the very institutions expected to act on the audit findings are compromised, potentially explaining his reluctance to hand the report to established law-enforcement agencies.