Police mum on costs of escorting trucks

Botswana Police Service (BPS) has declined to reveal the costs of escorting haulage trucks that pass through the country.

Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Dipheko Motube, said in an interview that he cannot share the costs of escorting with the media as it is an administrative matter.

Around May this year, the government decided to escort cargo trucks coming into the country to their destinations while those in transit are also escorted to the exit point.

This was after it was established that most of the Covid-19 positive cases involved truck drivers.

The move was mean...