Are we broke?

There has been a chain of events that has left many wondering whether government’s spending power has taken a knock resulting in failure to execute certain key services.

This trend is not only starting to show recently, one could count back to  a period spurning  five years or more when primary school and secondary school textbooks and exercise books got a sustained knock that continues up to today. There are no text books, pupils are forced to share the books in the class nowadays, whether it is primary or secondary school level.

At higher education the problem had been precipitating  in recent years resulting in the logjam we found ourselves in today; colleges and universities are being owed tens of millions of Pula by government, some debts going back to a period of 4-5 years. 

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