MINISTRY of Education Administration Permanent Secretary Norianna Muneku says there is a deficit of over 500, 000 desks countrywide. And Muneku says the ministry did not have a budget for desks but still took out K70 million to rehabilitate some broken desks, which was cost effective. Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee, Monday, Muneku explained that at the time President Hakainde Hichilema pronounced that no child should sit on the floor, the budget had already been provided. “First of all, the deficit countrywide is 564,726 desks. We did an inventory and made sure that was done because we had to make sure that we know what we were doing as we are providing for these desks. At the time when...