The Opposition yesterday allowed the passage of Financial Paper 6/2012 in the National Assembly even as they had concerns that the explanations for the expenditure were inadequate and that the requests did not meet the qualifying ‘emergency and unforeseen’ criteria for supplementary provisions.
The two financial outlays totalled $2 billion and covered $500 million for the Ministry of Agriculture and a $1.5 billion for the Ministry of Housing and Water.
The allocation for the Ministry of Agriculture was a