Man-in-the-street sees $10,000 measure as attempt to buy votes

Joan Baveghems

APNU MP Joan Baveghems says the “man-in-the-street” has seen government’s proposal $10,000 allocation this year for parents with a child in school as an attempt to buy their votes and she said the money could have been better spent on school buses.

“According to the man-in-the-street, the government is trying to buy their votes but I don’t know if the minister heard the song they are singing, ‘Not a blade of grass, not one cuirass.’ We love the one seat majority,” Baveghems told the National Assembly last Friday,