Obakeng Moumakwa

Obakeng Moumakwa is a Motswana politician and a Former Member of Parliament Ezekiel Obakeng Moumakwa for Kgalagadi North and a member of Botswana Nataional Front. Quotes The agents advised that allegations had been leveled against me to the effect that on 25 November 2014 I held an official meeting at the Pavillion, Fairgrounds with a representative from Vecto Petroleum.  The allegations further said that the purpose of the meeting was to source fuel for the Botswana Government/Botswana Oil. My intention was to use my position to procure Government fuel through my company Petro Lilac, therefore gaining unfairly. My response to the allegations was that they were ‘not true’.  I have at no stage been a representative of the Botswana Government/Botswana Oil in procuring fuel.  I am neither a member of Botswana Oil Board of Directors nor do I belong to any of Botswana Oil procurement structures. Admittedly, I work for the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources but my line of duty is far remote to fuel procurement. We were associates, maybe not friends. Our association resulted with, among other things, jointly forming Petro Lilac. Sometimes in mid-2014 our relationship soured and we went our separate ways. Between June/July 2014 and January 2015, I did not hear from Reatile and the reverse is the same. I remember at some point (around August 2014) he made efforts to reach me through cell phone calls but I ignored his calls. I could not therefore have been involved in an oil deal with two gentlemen, one of whom I did not know personally and had never met and the other one, I had neither met, made contact with or any form of communication for almost half a year. I advised that I was available and they could come. The following day the meeting was arranged at The Pavillion. It was attended by my relative in the company of two gentlemen, a white man and a black man. We exchanged greetings, with the white man giving me a business card. The name of the white man was Richard Venn and the company on the business card was Vecto Petroleum. I was framed, says Moumakwa, Botswana Guardian Sun(21 October 2016) Their responsibilities will include carrying out a business, financial and human resource assessment of BMC, valuation of BMC and submitting a comprehensive project completion report at the end of the project. Their concerns and suggestions were duly noted and taken onboard because it is government’s commitment to ensuring that privatisation is fair, transparent and in the best interests of Batswana. Consultants pocket P13m for BMC privatisation,Botswana Guardian Sun(11 June 2019)