Parliament on Friday passed the supplementary estimates of expenditure for the consolidated and development funds contained in Financial paper No.3 which includes the Ministry of State President’s request for additional funding amounting to P5, 233, 700 to cater for the 6 % salary increase which was effected in April 2015. Although opposition MPs, present in parliament objected and accused the Minister of Finance and Development Planning for unnecessarily delaying to include the amount in the national budget he presented to the nation in February, Minister Kenneth Matambo explained that he was in fact delayed by the bargaining council’s failure to reach a consensus. While almost all of the ruling part MPs who took to the floor to debate the supplementary estimates accused most opposition MPs of not taking the plight and need of Batswana serious by abandoning parliamentary sessions , the few who were present accused the ruling party of playing dilly dally tactics and wasting public funds on unnecessary supplements. “I have observed that each time when parliament is to debate supplementary estimates to the budgets opposition MPs walk out, and this is not good,” he said. According to Moswaane this revealed and exposed the irresponsible behaviour of the…
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