Kwara 2018 Budget: Ministry, Parastatals, others in last minute rush for November presentation

Date: 2017-10-30

Ahead of the planned submission of the 2018 budget by the Kwara State Government in November, ministries, agencies and parastatals have started defence of their financial proposal, National Pilot can authoritatively report.

The government in a recent report, had expressed desire to present the budget to the House of Assembly latest November 28 towards its speedy passage in December or early next year.

The move, it was gathered, was to have a proper budgetary system that will put to an end the retrogressive issue of rollover of unavailable and unspent funds at the end of a budgeting year.

According to a highly placed source who confided in this medium on the issue because he was not permitted to speak officially to the press, most ministries and agencies among others have already began the defence of their budget at the Ministry of Finance.

"The state government in its bid to ensure early passage of the 2018 budget has set machinery in place to ensure that everything is done according to plan.

"To this end, the ministries, parastatals and agencies have been busy defending their budget proposals at the Ministry of Finance and the place has been a beehive of activities.

"The plan is to make sure that everything is completed early so that it will not delay the planned submission to the Kwara State House of Assembly hopefully in November.

"Unless we get the budgeting process and timing right, we will continue to have roll-over which is antithetical to the growth of our economy. It is in realisation of this that the federal government is doing the same.

"It is after all those affected have finished their defence that we can put a ceiling to the figure to be budgeted in 2018," the source added.

It was gathered, last night, that some committee chairmen of the Kwara State House of Assembly have been scheduled to meet with government officials in finding a common ground and a way forward in the planned early presentation of the budget proposal.

Recall that the government through the Commissioner for Planning and Economic Development, Alhaji Wasiu Odewale had rated the performance of the 2017 budget at 68 per cent.

The state government in a related report said it would commit 70 per cent for capital expenditure in the 2018 proposal and end leakages in tertiary education among others.

The state House of Assembly recently passed the 2017 revised appropriation bill of N166 billion in response to the request of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed in his message to the House early October.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abubakar B.M     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Madawaki     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     Musbau A. Akanji     Facemasks     Saidu Yaro Musa     Quran     Folashade Omoniyi     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Kunbi Titiloye     Ajidagba     Gurei     Hakeem Idris     Oniwasi Agbaye     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     NTA Ilorin     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Sa\'adu Salau     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Pakata Development Association     Communication Network Support Services     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Oyin-Zubair     Federal Allocation     Laolu Saraki     Fatimat Saliu     Yakubu Gobir     Abubakar Lah     Ajikobi     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Sadiq Buhari     IPSAS     Peculiar Allowance     Bolaji Abdullahi     Quareeb     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Tayo Awodiji     Aisha Gobir     Adebara     Local Government     Solomon Edojah     Royal FM     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Kawu Baraje     Split Diamond Interchange     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Kulende-UITH     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Ijagbo     Shonga     March 18     GANZY     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Bio Ibrahim     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     20 Billion Bond     TIIDELab     Aminat Omodara     Ibrahim Taiwo     Gwanara     Student Learning Support Helpline     Toyin Sanusi     Agboola Babatunde     GAMA     Ahman Pategi     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Mohammed Yisa     Olatunji Ibrahim     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Issa Manzuma     Ahmad Belgore    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Academic Staff Union Of Universities     PharmAccess Foundation     Third Estate     Abdulkarim Adisa     Idris Amosa Saidu     Ghali Alaaya     Revenue Court     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Wasiu Odewale     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Kwara North     Sango-UITH Road     Kola Bukoye     N-Power     ANCOPPS     BIR     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Balogun-Ojomu     GANZY     Mamman Saba Jibril     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Kwara State University Of Education     Christian Association Of Nigeria     LAK Jimoh     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Igosun     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Labour Party     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Minimum Wage     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     IHS Towers     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     LABTOP     Olatunji Ibrahim     Kwara Basketball Association     Sobi FM     GRA     Adedeji Onimago     Jumoke Gafar     Bashirat Bola Bello     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Ogbondoroko     Baba Issa     March 28     Ibrahim Labaika     Emmanuel Bello     Oyawoye     Kwara State Polytechnic     Durbar Festival     REO CAKES     Kemi Adeosun     Isiaka Abdulrazak     CT Ayeni     Bashiru Makama     Tanke     Ballah     NFAI     Yakubu Dogara     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     EFCC     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Dele Momodu     Ishola Abdullahi     Segun Ogunsola     Ubandawaki     Maryam A. Garuba     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Irepodun     Nigerian Correctional Service     Monsurat Omotosho     Bello Oyedepo     Tayo Alao     Yahya Mohammed     Ekiti