MINISTER of Small and Medium Enterprises Elias Mubanga says his ministry is making sure all applications which are received are scrutinised so that only viable projects and proposals are funded. And Mubanga says the decent jobs that youths were promised are through entrepreneurship. In an interview, Friday, Mubanga said there was need to help small and medium enterprises change their mindsets because most of them expected to get funding without any proper scrutiny. “First and foremost, when they come, sometimes I have a look though it is under the permanent secretary’s office who directs them. They are directed especially looking into business development and SMEs. These are two departments [we are] dealing with and of course cooperative departments. They are...

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