How to mess up a budget 101

 

1. Put campeign promises above reality…switch from traditional budgeting to a complicated zero based budgeting in months….without sufficient training of the civil service. …

2. Fail to submit a Medium Term Expenditure Framework for the next three financial years on the specific time mandated in the Fiscal Responsibility Act (2007) Part II, Section (11)(1b)

3. Appoint a National Security team in July 2015 but hold on and appoint an Economic Team in November 2015

4. Empower civil servants to write a budget. ..without appointing ministers….. comment about “noise” made by Ministers….

5. Swear in Ministers on the 11th of November; submit the budget 22nd of December. …

6. Sign the budget without having your Office or close Aids scrutinize at random a Ministry or Department. …that will ensure large figures like N500m plus for meetings are not detected in house.

7. Defend everything. …if they say the capital appropriation to State House clinic is more than the total capital appropriation to all Teaching Hospitals. ….combined. …deny it