THERE is absolutely no reason why we are losing tons of gold to foreigners who are paying K250 per gram instead of K1000. The very notion that foreigners can freely enter our country and trade is anathema.This is negligence of the worst order and those responsible must be penalized.Today we join the plaintive and deeply felt anguish of the secretary to the cabinet who recently wondered why technocrats were taking too long to actualize policiesIn February this year, Dr. Simon Mitis called for expeditious implementation of Cabinet’s decision to actualise the legalisation of cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes. He was disappointed that although Cabinet approved a proposal to implement the legalisation of production of marijuana for medicinal use, and a technical committee for cultivation, processing and exporting of cannabis for economic use was constituted, nothing much has taken place.The same lethargy can be noticed among other technocrats who sit back while the country battles […]
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