The Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube has defended the financial allocation made to the Defence and Home Affairs Ministries in the 2019 national budget. In previous budgets, the two ministries used to get the lion’s share of the budget allocation. Ncube broke with established tradition and allocated more money to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in his 2019 budget. Ncube had this to say
This allocation is small; we have a situation where we have our military personnel at times having two meals per day instead of three; our police officers failing to attend to crime scenes because they do not have transport and other equipment to use. So we need to capacitate them.
These are ministries that have to do with the social development of our people. If a police officer does not have the means of getting to a crime scene, even if you report, it would be of no value, hence we gave them this amount.
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