Curbing consumption madness would reduce expenditure

This week on Tuesday I attended a seminar for Members of Parliament to analyse the 2016 National Budget that was presented to the legislative assembly on November 26 2015.

I must say, I was generally satisfied with the level of analysis and debate, which makes me wonder why with all these brilliant ideas, Zimbabwe remains in the economic doldrums.

To set the ball rolling was the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda who challenged MPs not to allow political affiliation to compromise objective budget debate and also not to allow the Executive to fast-track the budget in Parliament without proper scrutiny.

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