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"content": "Ministries who seriously required training. I do not agree that a two-week course is going to be sufficient. I do not agree! It will be totally inadequate because even professionals - whether you are a qualified lawyer or accountant - need continuous education. It is my proposal that we have a continuous training for Ministers, Assistant Ministers and others. So, if a person is appointed as the Minister for Finance, he must first have the prerequisite qualifications to even understand what is required in the Ministry of Finance. You cannot allow somebody to go to the Ministry of Local Government yet he has no idea what the Ministry does. The first requirement is that the Minister appointed by His Excellency the President, at his pleasure, should have minimum qualifications for that job. The reason that we are having problems in the Ministry of Finance, and other Ministries - let us zero in on the Ministry of Finance- for the last number of years, is because the Ministers in that Ministry do not have a good grip on the operations of that Ministry. I can speak about the Anglo Leasing, the Grand Regency Hotel, the Goldenberg and others. It only requires somebody with basic information to know whether certain reports are right or wrong. What happened in the Ministry of Finance was that the so called âmandarinsâ who have been there for years and years, and who know all the loopholes, used them to advise conmen like Pattni and Somaia to work out how to get Goldenberg. I do not, for one minute, think that any one person, as clever as people say Mr. Pattni is, would have had the inside knowledge of how to con this country of billions of shillings."
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