Chief o' lies insults nation's intelligence
Friday, July 12, 2019
It would be another six decades before the November 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy made him the fourth and last American president to be assassinated.
There is a lamentable cost to the assassination of a Head of State. Political assassinations are different from other murders both in motivation and in consequences. A bullet fired by Serbian nationalist killing Austria’s Archduke in 1914 sparked the First World War which arguably paved way to the Second.
Whilst celebrating milestones in inclusivity, with notably P5 billion awarded to vulnerable groups, the report sounds a 'siren' on a dangerous and growing trend: the ballooning use of micro-procurement. That this method, designed for small-scale, efficient purchases, now accounts for a staggering 25% (P8 billion) of total procurement value is not a sign of agility, but a 'red flag'. The PPRA’s warning is unequivocal and must be...