Lesotho: Public Works Budget in Limbo

….as committee demands evidence of withdrawal of court case

THE Portfolio Committee on Natural Resources has directed the Ministry of Public Works and Transport to provide evidence that a court case it filed against the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has been withdrawn.

The committee wants to see that evidence first before it proceeds with debating the ministry’s M3.2 billion budget allocation.

Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Retšelisitsoe Matlanyane, allocated M3.2 billion to…