Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Skills Development Dr Theophilus Mooko was at pains trying to defend poor performance of his ministry when appearing before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee. He admitted that his ministry has failed to deliver quality education due to poor planning. Dr Mooko who tried to apportion blame saying his ministry should not be the sole culprits had a rude awakening when MP for Francistown West Ignatius Moswaane told him to stop shifting blame. “ Moswaane put to him that one of the reasons that led to poor performance of students in national examinations is due to poor planning by his ministry as evidenced by shortage of books especially text books in schools. Mooko admitted that they have realised that their officers budget late for both books and food for students leading to students idling in schools."Yes I concede that we have failed the nation due to poor planning and under budgeting. We have failed in several aspects, supervision in schools is still a challenge and change in curriculum and failure to facilitate training for teachers,” conceded Mooko adding that curriculum at primary schools is too congested. Another challenge that Mooko said could be…