|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State
By Celestine Ihejirika, Jalingo
Taraba State Government has commenced collecting and collating areas of common interest towards a comprehensive 2025 budget.
As such, the state Governor Agbu Kefas has declared open a week-long meeting in Jalingo of stakeholders to bring in their contributions.
The governor was represented at the event by Permanent Secretary, Budget and Economic Planning, Ministry of Finance, Alhaji Umar Bello.
Similarly, the ministry has carried out stakeholder engagements and consultations in the three senatorial zones and solicited for maximum support to enable success in the task of moving our state forward to a greater height.
The Governor appreciated the accounting officers of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) resolve to lead their management staff to the all-important discussion as inputs will be treated with all seriousness it deserves.
Alhaji Bello urged participants to come out with a comprehensive reality of budget format, noting that previous capital expenditure estimates are not reliable and not capital in nature.
He emphasized on the need to have a second look in submissions before final presentation to law-makers while expressing gratitude for turn-out of participants.
Also, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mr. Douglas Kisaba said discussions will no longer be business as usual pointing out that all hands must be on deck to forestall mistakes of the past during presentations as he encouraged participants to make positive inputs that will stand the test of time in this current dispensation.
He added that the budget should provide clear definition to enable the whole process achieve its objective just as he urged participants to pay rapt attention to the discussion to enable the state to move forward.
The Permanent Secretary, Political Affairs, Office of the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs. Jemimah G. Nwunuji said Governor Kefas is not leaving any stone unturned till total transformation of change takes place in the state.
Comments are closed, but trackbacks and pingbacks are open.