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Botswana's Multi-Million Pula Medical Bills Heist Exposed NEWS: INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS INDEPTH: FUNERAL SPEECHES AN ACULTUR- PAGE 3 COME TO BPF SPOKESMAN’S AID PAGE 11 AL, OFTENTIMES UGLY SPECTACLE August 2 - 8, 2020 EXCELLENCE IS STANDARD PRACTICE PRICE: P12.50 www.sundaystandard.info @SunStd_bw Botswana’s multi-million Pula medical bills heist exposed Medical aid patients robbed out of millions of Pulas every year Medical bill heist threatens to ruin households – report Mother to Child transmission programme not as effective as it is made out to be Alarming number of teenagers and young adults HIV positive Inside how KHONANI ONTEBETSE directors atswana on medical aid are being ripped off to the tune of millions of broke the BPula in out of pocket (OOP) medical expenses Choppies – the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) has revealed. The report by BHF has exposed bank a sick system under which Batswana SUNDAY STANDARD REPORTER who are on medical aid pay more for medical services, in excess of the go- ing rate recommended by the World Personal compensation to non-executive di- Health Organization (WHO). It has rectors of Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) further emerged that Botswana’s se- and Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) nior citizens who are on medical aid listed Choppies Enterprises Ltd has shot up are the hardest hit. to a whopping P 4.6 million. BHF Managing Director Dr This is a 214 per cent growth during the Katlego Mothudi stopped short of fi nancial year ended June 2019, compared to warning that the high out of pocket P1.46 million paid during the same period in expenses paid by Botswana medical the previous year, data availed to the Sunday aid clients could impoverish local Standard reveals. households. Members who have been kicked out Dr Mothudi cautioned that “key of the Choppies board among them for- measure included in this report is mer President of Botswana Festus Mogae, OOP expenditure by medical aid Former Botswana High Commissioner to benefi ciaries. Health care costs can India Dorcas Kgosietstile, former Barclay be catastrophic and lead to fi nancial Bank Managing Director Wilfred Mpai, ruin of households.” former partner at PwC Botswana Robert The BHF report however does Neil Mathews and Chairman of Holdsport not disclose how overcharges make Ltd Sydney Alan Muller gobbled up a huge their way into bills in the fi rst place. chunk of the P4,6 million in three months. It is not clear if this massive heist Choppies paid the non-executive direc- of medical bills is a result of price tors P33,333 per board sitting. Kgosietstile fraud, errors or just overcharges. received a pay out of P 1.3 million compared OOP expenditure is the money to P4,00,000 (225% increase) she received contributed by medical aid clients the previous year. Mogae received 8,67,000 for health services when they access compared to P1,33,000 (551 % increase) care. he received during the fi nancial year ended According to the 2019 BHF, 2018. Batswana’s OOP expenditure was The Choppies board met almost every more than P403 million, represent- week since August 2018 as the company ing at least 20% of total healthcare failed to publish its audited results. Subse- expenditure. In 2018, OOP expendi- quently, a boardroom battle involving Chop- ture was P355 million, representing pies Enterprises Chief Executive Offi cer, 19% of total healthcare expenditure. Ram Ottapathu and company board under the chairmanship of Festus Mogae borke Gaborone main mall is hauntingly empty as the Greater Gaborone region begins a two week lockdown. CONTINUES ON PG 2 out, leading to the CEOs suspension. However, in the fi rst week of Septem- ber 2019, Ottapathu swept to victory in the EGM, being retained on the board by 52.05% of shareholders and securing ap- proval of his handpicked nominees Tom DWNP was disarmed over coup allegations - Khama Pritchard (77.75%) and Carol Jean Howard (51.2%). Ottapathu’s close ally and Chop- THOBO MOTLHOKA decision to take away fi rearms from said. with his predecessor was seen by any the President’s offi cial jet OK1 made of possible paranoia by the Presi- pies founder, Farouk Ismail was also retained the Department of Wildlife and Na- At the time of the disarmament as a move to emasculate the Khama a U-turn mid-air enroute to Mozam- dent’s security personnel. in the board with 55% of votes in support. Former President Lt Gen Ian tional Parks (DWNP)anti-poaching the DWNP was under Khama’s brothers. bique over what the Director of the Last month (July) Magosi told Wilfred Mpai, Dorcas Kgosietsile, Ronald Khama says the Anti-Poaching Unit unit was based on unfounded fears brother Tshekedi Khama (TK) who TK himself expressed concern Directorate of Intelligence and Se- the Parliamentary Accounts Com- Tamale and Heinrich Standar, all members was disarmed because of fears of a of a possible coup. was Minister of Environment, Nat- over the move which he said was a curity (DIS) Brigadier Peter Magosi mittee (PAC) that he still feared for of the previous board, failed to secure reap- coup plot against President Mokg- “I have no proof but I was reli- ural Resources Conservation and gift to the poachers. said was a plot to assassinate Presi- the President’s life. pointment, in a meeting marked by palpable weetsi Masisi. ably informed it was to do with me Tourism. Issues over Masisi’s security in- dent Masisi. “I won’t commit to a time frame tension between the board rivals. Speaking to the Sunday Standard and the irresponsible and childish The decision by President Mok- tensifi ed in 2019 in the lead up to No arrests have been made over Friday July 31st 2020 Khama said the allegations of a coup plot,” Khama gweetsi Masisi following a fall out the General Elections. At one point the allegations, fuelling speculations CONTINUES ON PG 4 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEATHER WEATHER SUNDAY STANDARD IS A MEMBER OF THE PHYSICAL ADDRESS: PHYSICAL ADDRESS FORECAST Max: 26°C Max: 24°C Max: 26°C BOTSWANA PRESS COUNCIL AND SUBSCRIBES Commerce Park, Plot 104, Rowland, Ngilichi House (Meriting Spar) Unit 6, Francistown & INFO GABORONE Min: 04°C Min: 03°C Min: 06°C TO THE BOTSWANA MEDIA CODE OF ETHICS Unit 21. Gaborone TEL: 3188784 FAX: 3188795 TEL: 2412319 FAX: 2412310 Source: www.weather.com www.mascom.bw Make over 1.7 Million connections with Masika le Ditsala To subscribe dial *123# P10 Unlimited on-net or via Mascom Online + 50MB Data 1 Day Terms and Conditions apply. E&OE. 2 Behind the News August 2 - 8, 2020 Contrary to Police start nationwide operation what Khama said, Mor- to enforce mask-wearing law waeng has • A face mask costs as little as P2 but a single super never crossed spreader can rack up a health bill in the hundreds of millions of pula the floor As someone whose mother tongue is Eng- lish, Ian Khama should be the last person Comrade Vs to be judo-swept by that language but that is what happened last Saturday. Comrade: Speaking at the funeral of Priscilla Moswaane, who was the wife of the Fran- cistown East MP, Ignatius Moswaane, How BNF is Khama invited his audience to ruminate on the irony of a minister who has him- self crossed the floor one too many times collapsing bringing legislation that would prohibit floor-crossing. under the To be clear, Kabo Morwaeng has in- deed done the rounds of Botswana’s po- litical landscape and had he gone to the weight of University of Botswana instead of the Na- tional University of Lesotho, would likely have hopped from GS26 (the Botswana fake news Democratic Party’s cell at UB) to Mass (Botswana National Front cell at UB)) and scourge the UB-origin Marx Engels Lenin and Sta- SUNDAY STASNDARD REPORTER lin movement. Morwaeng’s political career started at Botswana National Front vice president, Sir Ketumile Masire’s BDP from where he Prince Dibeela has been forced to respond joined Dr. Kenneth Koma’s BNF and was to a circulating WhatsApp message that hints at him and his followers planning to join the ruling Botswana Democratic Party. The messages that have since gone viral on Social Media among other things allege that Dibeela is working closely with the BDP. Crucially the identity of the other per- son with whom Dr Dibeela is exchanging the messages is not known. Allegations have been made that the person is president Mokgweetsi Masisi. But Dibeela holds that he does not have any personal relationship with Masisi. Face masks are mandatory to curb the spread of COVID-19 In the conversation seen by Sunday Standard, Dr Dibeela is made to be saying t took a long time coming but Commander North, Israel Tuelo, Sunday Standard published an article Ditshukudu, a small village west of mandatory mask law. In the process, that if he does not get his way inside the the police are finally doing titled “Intensification of Enforce- to that effect but found himself de- Lentsweletau, and didn’t encounter a these adults endanger the lives of BNF he would form a splinter party that something that they should ment of COVID-19 Protocols by fenceless when a follow-up article single person wearing a mask. infants who can’t wear face masks could cooperate with Botswana Congress have done minutes after Presi- Members of the Botswana Police published photographic evidence. Oddly, some of the people who themselves because it is not medi- Party and even the Alliance for Progres- dent Mokgweetsi Masisi assent- Service” was issued last Wednesday. Police officers were themselves part are willfully disobeying health ad- cally safe for them to do so.
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