The Pheu Thai Party plans to grill the government over its alleged cover-up of an African swine fever (ASF) outbreak in the country and will also ask the anti-graft agency to investigate.
In a statement on Wednesday, the main opposition party said it suspected the government knew there was a swine fever outbreak in the country that started in 2020, but had concealed it from the public.
The party based its accusation on the huge number of pigs that had died and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives’ request for more than 500 million baht to subsidise the culling and disinfection of pig farms and to compensate farmers.
The government not only failed to tell the public…
