FINANCE and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says he doesn’t see why anyone should quarrel with the government when it’s not security operations which are being audited. Commenting on the controversy around the engagement of external firms to audit security wings, Dr Musokotwane insisted that the government only wanted to verify the bills presented to it for the supplied general goods. “It is surprising why there is so much excitement and anxiety about this issue. We had explained it very clearly, because last year when we came into office, remember there was a huge amount of debt that we inherited. Some [of] that was external, some of which was domestic debt. So on account of two things, we had...

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