Saturday, January 17, 2026

WUC’s rebuttal collapses under documentary evidence

Sunday Standard notes the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC)’s attempt to discredit our reporting on its handling of a Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) garnishee order. The paper stands by its reporting.

In a public statement issued on December 9, 2025 WUC dismissed as “misleading” and “incorrect” our article detailing how the corporation continued paying a contractor after BURS issued a multimillion-pula garnishee order.

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