By MUBANGA LUCHEMBETHE national budget tabled by Finance Minister SitumbekoMusokotwane on Friday (Oct 29) is currently being debated by Members of Parliament at the National Assembly beginning Tuesday (Nov 2). Based on the parliamentary sitting calendar, the 2022 national budget is scheduled to be discussed at the policy level for several days, and will be wound up by the ministers of the relevant ministries for some days before being discussed at the committee level for some more days.Given UPND’s yet-to-be-fulfilled myriad of campaign promises, uneven pace of projected socio-economic reconstruction and the Covid-19 pandemic’s deep economic scarring effects that are still unfolding, PF’s lawmakers are now in overdrive, trying to deflate UPND-crafted national budget. But UPND’s lawmakers see them as out to undermine the finance minister’s political career, and view the blame game as tactics influenced by malice and sour grapes after PF’s regime fell out of power in the August 12 polls. No wonder the […]
PLAYING THE POLITICAL BLAME GAME IN PARLIAMENT
