Below we capture parts of the Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Kenneth Matambo’s 2016/17 budget speech, reflecting how the Leader of Opposition, Duma Boko responded. MATAMBO: In many respects, the 2016/2017 budget is a transitional budget, specifically from: NDP 10 to NDP 11; Vision 2016 to Vision 2036; and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Efforts were therefore made during the preparation of the 2016/2017 budget to ensure that it lays a sound foundation and expenditure path for NDP 11, while at the same time aligning its priorities with the emerging themes of both the Vision 2036, and the Sustainable Development Goals. The preparation of the Vision 2036 is underway, while the SDGs were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015. A full alignment of the Vision 2036 and the SDGs with the annual budgets will be achieved through implementation of NDP 11, whose preparation is at an advanced stage and I hope to present its draft to this Honourable House in July this year. BOKO: Of note, the current budget closes several significant epochs (NDP 10, Vision 2016, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and takes us into three…