The 2023 appropriation bill will be presented to the National Assembly by President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) in September 2022.
Ben Akabueze, the Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation, revealed this on Monday in Abuja while conducting a training session on the use of the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System to prepare budgets.
More than 4,000 budget officers from more than 900 national government ministries, departments, and agencies participated in the training.
Akabueze, represented by the Budget Office Director of Expenditure (Socials), Fabian Ogbu, said the Buhari regime was determined to ensure consistent and timely preparation, submission, and approval of annual budgets, as part of its Public Financial Management reforms.
He lamented that MDAs did not study the Budget Call Circular in detail, which resulted in them making avoidable mistakes compared to if they complied with the relevant sections of the Budget Circular.
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He said, “The main goal of this training is to provide continuous learning to equip budget personnel with the requisite knowledge, skills and the tools they require to prepare and submit the 2023 budget.
“It has been observed that MDAs do not study the budget circular in detail, as such make mistakes that should ordinarily be avoided if they had complied with relevant sections of the budget cycle.”
Akabueze added that the 2023 budget is being prepared alongside extant federal government policies and guidelines as articulated in the 2023 Budget Call Circular and other relevant laws.
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