Rwanda: Lawmaker Calls for Action On People Behind MINAGRI Wasteful Spending

Officials at the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI) who commissioned the purchase of unnecessary equipment should be held accountable because they failed to do proper planning and supervision for the ministry's mechanisation programme, a Member of Parliament (MP) has said.

MP Gabriel Semasaka, the chairperson of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Environment, told The New Times in an interview on Wednesday that more investigations should be carried out to establish why officials at MINAGRI bought the equipment they didn't need and went on to keep it up to now.

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