Minister of Trade and Industry Against Budget of November 3785?
Minister Ah Cho at the rally for a better Sekowo
(News Person): Mr. Tsubasa, I heard that the Ministry of Trade and Industry is not liking the Budget Proposal of November 3785, written under President Li Chika after her Presidential Address. May I ask how it affected the Ministry in whole?
(Ah Cho): Thank you for the question. I will answer this truthfully. Being the Minister of the Trade and Industry, I noticed a lot of wrong doing. Now, you can say thats pretty bad since I got into position in April 3789. What I know is that the last Minister used the funds for his own personal use since there haven't been any new industries or re-establishments of any sort in the last 5 years from 3785. To add on that note, Trade and Industry cannot, and I repeat, cannot run on a low budget of what we have at the current moment, which is 10 Billion SEK when there is so much that has to be paid for. So to speak, yesterday I sat down with my Ministry Heads, and come to find out that the Ministry is in debt of 100 Billion SEK. We dug deeper and deeper and realized that all the money that was supposed to be there was gone, all 400 Billion SEK of it. Thats a little suspicious to me. Digging a little more deeper, the last Minister and President was in a Ministry Scheme. They were stealing money from the Ministry's Treasury, and we didn't have enough SEK to pay for the new industries and highways, etc. in the given year of 3785. We currently have the FBI investigating every Ministry at the current moment because this could have been going on in all the Ministries. So, as of now, we have to postpone any projects we had planned for the next 5-10 years. Thats really bad since we were going to get some oil rigs in the Voronan waters, which could really boost our economy by 15-25%. Thats all.
(News Person): Thank you for your answer. We sure do hope the situation is resolved and the Kokkai will hopefully debate of a new Budget in the following years. Now, back to you in the studio.
Radical Republican Party Leader Defends Previous Minister and President
Party Leader Ariel Placide Manami Francis of the Radical Republicans
A little while after the talk with Minister Ah Cho, the Party's Chairman goes to the rally to defend previous leaders, President Li and Minister of Trade and Industry.
(Chairman Francis): Ladies and Gentlemen at the rally. I am the Chairman of the Radical Republicans. A few minutes ago, Minister Cho talked about an issue with the Budget of November 3785. In his statement, he said that the previous President and Minister of Trade and Industry were stealing money from the Ministry's Treasury. Well, that is a false statement. They did not steal the money. The money that was given to them was voted upon by the Ministry's Heads and a few others. I would know since I was in the room to witness the voting...
(Minister Cho): That was only twice there was a vote, am I correct.
(Francis): Yes you are correct.
(Cho): Well, in my report, there was more than two transactions to their accounts. To be exact, there were five transactions to each account.
(Francis): In the matter of since, it was probably a mishap of some sort. We'll have the FBI figure that one out. But I do not think they would steal since they're being paid from the Nation's Treasury and the Minister is being paid by the Ministry's Treasury.
(Cho) Yes, that is true, but the Minister only gets paid twice a month, on the 5th and the 20th. These transactions shows the 13th, 23rd, and the 28th. How is that possible? There is only one possible answer to that and that is the President and the Minister were stealing money, not only once from one month, but every other month for the last 5 years.
(Francis) Minister Cho, I like the observation. We shall have a talk in private with the two women. Thank you!
With that, they ended their little debate.