Botswana government has lost over P1 billion on the dysfunctional e-Government programme which was introduced in 2012; Public Accounts Committee has been informed. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications Kabelo Ebineng admitted that the implementation of e-Government was nonexistent, with financial resources budgeted for the programme channeled to where they were not intended to. It emerged that the department’s estimated budget was P871 million and the officer who was called to state how the money was used Oratile Thobogang said she was not comfortable to reveal how the money was spent. She said out of the estimated budget, they have spent P214 million on e-Government. The figures presented didn’t satisfy the members of PAC who requested that ledger be printed to see the proper figures. The figures showed that the total budget for e-government was P1.3 billion and P1.2 billion has been spent yet there is nothing to show. E-Government has been embroiled in controversies since inception even when it was still at the Office of the President. In 2015, Parliament allocated P150 million to the Ministry of State President to finance the development of e-Government. To this day, the ministry has not started the project…