……………as Finance Minister is urged to withdraw the 2024 National budget.
The only Infrastructure New Dawn Government has constructed is a tarmac going to Community House, Lunte Member of Parliament Hon Mutotwe Kafwaya has said.
Hon Kafwaya is part of the Patriotic Front Committee on Finance and National Planning.
He has described as shameful for the UPND to jump the budget from K119 billion in 2021 to K195 billion last year and have no infrastructure to show for it.
Hon Kafwaya was speaking during a media briefing in Lusaka today.
He has exposed the UPND for understating the 2024 National Budget by at least K66 billion.
“When you consider what budget they were coming from, they were coming from 119. The jump from 76 billion had gone in thin air in consumption because there is no infrastructure UPND has constructed other than a tarmac going to Community House. They are trying to hide figures, the 66 billion so that they don’t show that their actual budget is K244 billion,” the Lunte Lawmaker explained.
Hon Kafwaya lamented that “While the nation is being fed with talks of transparency in the recruitment process, it has emerged that such activities are being undertaken in dark corners in Certain institutions”.
Hon Kafwaya has alleged that Government is secretly conducting recruitments in the night and sending people in batches for trainings.
Meanwhile, Mufulira Central lawmaker Golden Mwila said it will be difficult for the 2024 national budget to be funded because the current revenue base is a problem.
He also said that the Minister has got time to withdraw the budget because it is not pro poor.
“Let the budget be prepared by the Zambians for the Zambians. The Manufacturing industry is going to die because the Government is not securing money to grow it,” he said.
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