At first glance, Assistant Minister of Health Lawrence Ookeditse’s decision to waive Botswana’s food safety laws and flood the country with millions of pula worth of potentially dangerous liquor may seem like just another public health scandal. But for those tracking the shadowy world of transnational illicit trade, it points to something far more insidious: the alleged protection of a cartel known within the corridors of Botswana’s executive power.
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