While government speakers trumpeted its achievements and urged support for its proposed $208.8B budget, AFC MP Trevor Williams on Wednesday evening signaled that his party would not support some of the key allocations proposed unless the administration is accountable for the spending to the National Assembly.
Williams, who was the first member of his party to participate in this year’s budget debates, told the House that the AFC would be supportive of any budget that seeks to address the needs of the nation and he noted that the opposition “has taken great pains to highlight to the administration the importance of consultation in any process aimed at national development.”
He, however, questioned government’s “haste” with the construction of the Marriott Hotel,