KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress (NC) lawmaker Gagan Thapa has challenged Prime Minister KP Oli to produce details of the expenses incurred in the control of the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
Speaking during today’s meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR), lawmaker Thapa, who is also a former Health Minister, asked: “Can the government tell us where the Rs 10 billion has been spent?”
He also lambasted the government for failing to work and control the spread of coronavirus despite tall claims on the part of the Health Ministry and other ministers.
“We can see that the number of infection is on a rise,” Thapa said adding, “And the government claims it is working day and night.”
Thapa also dubbed the quarantine facilities set up by the government as ‘concentration camps’ where people, particularly the ones returning from India, are left to die.
Lawmaker Thapa was sarcastic to tell the government to rather stop testing for coronavirus and declare the country COVID-19-free.
“Merely reciting idioms and poems will not solve the problems,” he told the Prime Minister.
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