Fri, 06 Oct 2017 13:55:46 +0000 By MAILESI BANDA GOVERNMENT has paid about K6 billion in arrears from the 2017 budget with K1.1 billion going towards paying pensions and K1.4 billion to the agriculture sector, Minister of Finance Felix Mutati has said. And the minister has announced that consultants have been engaged to evaluate State Owned Enterprises with the view of recapitalising those with a good business case. Mr. Mutati said the dismantling of arrears was in an effort to stabilise the economy which has been the mandate of the government in 2017. Mr. Mutati was speaking at the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZARI), 2018 national budget analysis breakfast meeting held in Lusaka yesterday. He explained that because of the measures put in place by the government in 2017 this year with the introduction of E voucher, the allocation to the Farmer Input Support Programme had gone down to K1.8 billion in […]
