Former Botswana Housing Corporation (BHC) chief executive officer, Reginald Motswaiso and his former chief of operations Babose Balule have been charged with two counts of corruption a for selling a BHC institutional house No. 4884 Extension 11 to Silver Shadows.
The company is owned by the former Directorate of Intelligence Services Isaac Kgosi. It is alleged that they acted jointly without following proper procedure.
The charge sheet states that the first accused person, Motswaiso, on or about the 7th of May 2021, at Gaborone, in the Gaborone Administrative District of the Republic of Botswana, whilst a public officer employed as chief executive officer of the Botswana Housing Corporation, a public body, directly used his position to obtain valuable consideration for the benefit of Silver Shadows (PTY) Limited.
The company is owned by Isaac Seabelo Kgosi as Director in the form of a sale of a Botswana Housing Corporation institutional house No. 4884 Extension 11, Gaborone without authority of the Botswana Housing Corporation Board.
The particulars of the offense further shows that the second accused person, Babose Balule sometime between the months of May and June 2021, exact date unknown to the prosecution, in Gaborone, in the Gaborone Administrative District of the Republic of Botswana, with intend to defraud Botswana Housing Corporation, made a false extract of Minutes of Botswana Housing Corporation Board purporting that the said Board at its meeting of the 26th of May 2021, resolved to sell House No. 4884 in Extension II, Gaborone, which is an institutional house, to Silver Shadows (PTY) Limited whilst he knew that “the Board never met as alleged and never made any such resolution,”reads part of the charge sheet.
The charge sheet further disclosed that the accused persons have committed this offense when the country was faced with Covid-19 as records show that the first accused, who is currently a pensioner and stays in Phakalane, committed the alleged offense on the 7th May 2021.
The legal advisor to the BHC Board, who is still working at the corporation as corporate counsel and resides in extension 19 in Gaborone, is accused of forgery contrary to section 344 as read with section 341(a) of the penal code (cap 08:01) laws of Botswana.
