The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime’s (DCEC) ability to protect sources of information (informers) will be put to test next week when Statistics Botswana (SB) squares off in court against one of its employees who is accused of leaking confidential information. An employee of SB, Marang Teisi, is fighting to save her job after she was suspended and later summoned to a disciplinary hearing on suspicion that she leaked confidential information to the media, exposing the rot at the parastatal. Issues included ranged from controversial recruitment, appointments and dismissals, unfair labour practices, and allegations of misappropriation of funds. As the author of the document, which she later availed to DCEC following a formal request from the graft busters, Teisi was later fingered by her employer (SB) as the mole who fed the media with information in her custody. Notwithstanding her protestation and denial of any knowledge of how the document was leaked to the newspapers, she was dragged through a protracted disciplinary hearing, which dragged on into 2016. The Patriot on Sunday is in possession of documents showing that on August 25, 2015 Teisi appealed for the intervention of DCEC to protect her using provisions of the Corruption and…
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