Selman upbraids gov’t over youth policy

The PPP/C administration has failed to keep its promises to the nation’s youth, according to PNCR-1G parliamentarian Africo Selman in her contribution to the debate on the 2011 National Budget.

Selman, the party’s Shadow Minister on Culture, Youth and Sport, on Thursday criticised the government for failing to implement a promised national youth policy 18 years after taking office which she noted was still being formulated according to an admission from PPP/C MP Steve Ninvalle in his presentation earlier that day.

“And earlier today the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport indicated that the youth policy would be formulated later this year; we await to see but it is obvious that government is not serious