SUGAR crisis is expected to be a top agenda as the National Assembly resumes on Monday after a weekend recess where members of parliament are expected to continue with debate on the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investments budget estimates that were presented on Friday.
It is expected the question and answer
session will begin in the morning as usual before the Members of
Parliament continue with the debate on the ministry before the Minister,
Charles Mwijage, winds up the debate to seek the approval of the
lawmakers for the 2016/2017 budget estimates of his ministry which has
laid a detailed implementation plan of ambitious national goal.
Sugar crisis has hit the country as
President John Magufuli vowed to take to task all sugar hoarders
regardless of their power and status in the society. Already several
businessmen have been arrested for hoarding tonnes of sugar for the sake
of hiking the product’s price.
Mr Mwijage is seeking for an allocation
of 81.87bn/- for the 2016/2017 to implement its activities whose
priority include promotion of industries in line with the second Five
Year Development Plan (FYDP II) (2016/17 – 2020/21) focusing on the
theme “Nurturing an Industrial Economy.”
The minister said the government will
start with implementation of 18 projects that are set to enable the
country to realize industrial economy in the near future. He said the
projects that have been given priority included the Liganga and
Mchuchuma coal projects in Njombe Region.
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