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Last Tuesday, senior officials from municipal corporations—both United National Congress and People’s National Movement-controlled—were summoned to a meeting with Rural Development and Local Government Minister Khadijah Ameen, where she attempted to devise a strategy to get intended projects off the ground.
In this closed-door meeting, and amid the recent firing of thousands of Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) and Forestry workers, Minister Ameen reportedly urged mayors and chairmen, CEOs, treasurers, financial officers and engineers to move swiftly on short-term employment projects to, as she put it, “help the people on the ground.”
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