Popular Democratic Movement MP Nico Smit has requested an investigation and a full audit into the expenditure of the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture for the 2022/2023 Financial Year.
Smit who made the request in the National Assembly, says an investigation into the ministry's expenditure of N$14 billion allocated for the 2022/2023 financial year, with specific reference to infrastructure and textbook expenditure, is needed.
Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) MP Nico Smit has moved to have a comprehensive inquiry into the allocation of public tenders.
In his motion tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, Smit says there is a need to identify the weaknesses in the Central Procurement Board of Namibia (CPBC), particularly in the sphere of due diligence.
Such an inquiry, he says, is necessary to restore public confidence and trust in the tender board.
The Popular Democratic Movement's (PDM) Shadow Finance Minister has shot down the country's annual budget for the 2023–2024 financial year as nothing but the usual government rhetoric lacking any means for implementation.
As is customary, Nico Smit of the official opposition took the platform to open the general debate on the Appropriation Bill, tabled by Finance and Public Enterprises Minister, Ipumbu Shiimi, last week.
The motto of Shiimi's budget last week was an economic revival and caring for the poor.
The Popular Democratic Movement's Shadow Finance Minister, Nico Smit, has shot down the medium-term budget for the remainder of the 2022–2023 financial year.
The Minister of Finance presented a budget of N$4 billion, for which, in his analysis, Smit said the government has no money to effect additional expenditures.
