‘ADDRESS CORRUPTION ISSUE FIRST’
LOBAMBA – As long as the new government does not address the issue of corruption, then it is wasting its time with the new budget.
This was the view of a majority of senators yesterday during Finance Minister Neal Rijkenberg’s Budget Speech debate, which was held in the Senate chambers.
First to touch on the issue of corruption was Senator Moi Moi Masilela, who said many previous governments had constantly sung the same tune of combating corruption, but eventually did nothing about it.
Pity
He said it was a pity that the new minister was also laying out things which he wished to implement without first taking stock of what had happened in the previous government.
“I feel sorry for him because this is not the budget we want, instead we were expecting the new government to take stock of what had happened in the past, which got this country into the current financial situation, before coming up with their own ideas,” said Masilela.
The senator submitted that the country was drowning, especially when it came to issues of government tenders.
He said in some instances they had witnessed government allowing, for example, the purchase of a loaf of bread for E100.
“There are three officers involved; that is the minister, principal secretary and the under secretary, who all agree that bread should be sold at E100 per loaf ,which is where the financial drain starts,” said Senator Masilela.
He said the accountant general continued to pay out such large monies with no one questioning, for example, why a loaf of bread was priced at E100.
He said as far as he was concerned, the new government was in the same position as the previous ones. He said it was disheartening that the minister would then come to the people to announce that they were raising taxes, electricity and petrol.
Masilela wondered why the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini was bringing nothing new.
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