‘Delay in 2016 budget shows Buhari is unprepared’
November 20, 2015
The Executive Director of the Centre for Social Justice, CSJ, Mr. Eze Onyekpere, says the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to present the 2016 Budget proposals to the National Assembly, one and a half months to the end of the current Fiscal Year is a demonstration of its unpreparedness for governance.


Onyekpere made this statement yesterday, during a round-table meeting on Budget Transparency and Public Engagement in Budget Process, following the release of the Open Budget Survey 2015, in Abuja.
He said: “That the executive has not presented the 2016 budget to the National Assembly until now shows the unpreparedness of the current administration in matters of governance.”
According to Onyekpere, the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission Act, 2007, the reviewed Medium Term Economic Framework, MTEF, and the 2016 budget by now should have been approved by the National Assembly.
“Right now, we don’t have the MTEF to underpin the budget and we don’t have the budget. The implication is that the budget is going to be presented very late and it may not be ready until the end of the first quarter of 2016, which has been the usual tradition. The implications are not funny for the administration of the Nigerian people.
“That means that the capital budget will be delayed and by the time they approve it in March, April or May, it will be raining season and all out-door constructions will stop.
“So we are continuing the cycle of poor capital budget implementation and of course that would mean addressing less of the needs of the Nigerian people who are suffering infrastructure deficit and also attending to less of the poor because the majority of Nigerians are poor and the budget is expected to address their needs,” he noted.

Can you please tell us what we achieved under a prepared govt who ruled for six good years?

A govt with a 'Change' mantra supposed to have a clear formula on how to solve the country's multiple problems & should without further delay starts to implement them!. If not why on earth are you going about promising a change?.... What 'change'?. You were given power because people thought you know the problem,but that's now is not the case!

Tundenoni:
Can you please tell us what we achieved under a prepared govt who ruled for six good years?

Is this all you have to say
If we so wished to continue the way we were, then we won't have voted for the change been preached by the present administration.

In other news, we want to see something better.

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Budget kwa?