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    "content": "One needs to see that the duplication of roles of Assistant Ministers, Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and Directors, by and large, is what results into waste. This is because each time you establish an Office of an Assistant Minister or Permanent Secretary or Director or Senior Deputy Secretary, it comes with a variety of things be it stationary, vehicles, routine issues of operations and maintenance that go with specific departments. From 1997 or 1998, as a country, we could not afford Development Expenditure and that is why we never built any roads or hospitals. In fact, those days, there was a common language. People would say, “We will do it when money becomes available.” Therefore, if we have to move forward, we must put our resources in Development Expenditure. We must put our resources in providing infrastructure and the right level of health care. In my view, any effort that seeks to re-allocate or move the bulk of expenditure from Recurrent Expenditure to Development Expenditure is the way to go. We cannot expect to register a 10 per cent growth rate if we will use most of our money to pay salaries, buy fuel and travel overseas."
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