MPS REJECT ENTIRE BUDGET

LOBAMBA – Thanks, but no thanks. This was the message that Members of Parliament (MPs) sent Finance Minister Martin Dlamini packing with as they rejected his entire budget yesterday.

He was given 48 hours to return with a budget that was for the people.
During the debate that lasted over seven hours, the different MPs tore into the Finance minister’s budget speech which he delivered in Parliament last Friday, complaining mainly ab with a budget that was for the people.
During the debate that lasted oveout the lack of enough money allocated to fix the country’s roads and the lack of water in all parts of the country.

The MPs were also not pleased that only E180 was allocated to people with disabilities, arguing that they should have at least been given E400 and said all persons with disabilities be registered.

The motion also had it that money for the elderly should be hiked from the E400 that was announced by the minister last Friday.
The intense motion was moved by Dvokodvweni MP Sitezi Dlamini, who had an unlikely supporter in Nkwene MP Sikhumbuzo Dlamini, as they had previously clashed in the past.

As late as 9:30pm yesterday, the MPs were still wondering what had prompted the minister and his advisors, including his Cabinet colleagues, to approve such a ‘non people oriented budget’.

As if she had a premonition that the MPs would blast her, Minister of Public Works and Transport Lindiwe Dlamini left the House of Assembly very early as the legislators lashed at her for promising Heaven and Earth, particularly on the implementation of the probase programme.

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