Pressure continues to mount on the Ministry of Lands Management, Sanitation and Water Resources to justify some of the decisions they have taken in awarding or refusing to grant some multi-million Pula tenders to deserving entities. This week Project Management Officers (PMOs) were again summoned by the leadership and ordered to speedily facilitate the re-awarding of the P1.5 billion Maun Water Reticulation project to the second bidder Zhengtai Group Botswana. The PMOs are said to have informed the leadership that the decision can only be taken by the Permanent Secretary who is said to be outside the country. “Our main worry is that the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) has requested that it be furnished with valid reasons for canceling the project award and if it is for security reasons we had to forward such to them but we have failed to do so,” revealed a highly placed source within the ministry. Another concern for the PMOs is that the difference between the first bidder China Jiansu and Zhengtai Group is P300 million, which they argue, doesn’t make economic sense for the ministry and government. China Jiangsu International had won the tender to the value of P1.5 billion…