
With no other agenda than the Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) one would have been excused to believe that the stand-off between Moyo Guma and Tshekedi Khama was being escalated to the next level at the Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Bodies and Enterprises (PCSBE) when it met on Wednesday. It has not been immediately clear whether other parastatals facing maladministration will be brought to book by the PCSBE. However, for now it is the BTO saga that Guma is not letting on. It was yet another dramatic day. First the file that captured the previous meetings proceedings had disappeared from Parliament. Next when officials from the ministry had to answer to the committee they talked in variance, particularly on the tourism levy issue. In the absence of the file, it was going to be difficult for the committee to address the issue of the contract between BTO and ASUIA to implement development levy without approval of Parliament. ASUIA is a United Kingdom-based insurance broker which Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism Tshekedi Khama instructed BTO to appoint. PCSBE chairman Samson Moyo Guma pulled a trick as he pulled the file from the Auditor General which he said they got…