2024 Budget Defence: MDA's Tasked to Presents a Realistic Budget Proporsal





Ministries, Department and Agencies under the Plateau State Government has been Tasked to presents a realistic and presentable budget proposals.

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, Peter Lamba Bot, threw the challenge while opening the 2024 Budget Defence by the MDA's.

The Permanent Secretary, explained that the budget is properly planned to cover critical sectors of the economy, such as security, education, health, environment, empowerment and other critical infrastructure that will drive development in the state.


He challenged MDA's to run the 2024 budget with decisiveness to enable the present administration startup well while reminding ministries, department and agencies on the need to block leakages and adopt measures to revenue generation.

He said the project should priorities and promote the policy thrust of the present administration.

The Management of the various ministries, Department and Agencies that appeared on the first day for the
defence of their proposed budget, were drilled on their expected revenue and propose expenditure.

The first Ministry to appear before the team was the state ministry of Information and Communication and
Its management, proposed over Three hundred and Twelve Million Naira as capital expenditure but was reduced to N61.3m.

Director of broadcast and New Media in the ministry, Wilme Goyit, who led the management to defend the 2024 budget proposal, assured of judicious utilization of funds allocated to the ministry.

Also, Management of the Plateau Radio Television Corporation, (PRTVC) led by the acting General Manager, Kachollom Pam, presented a budget proposal of over Four hundred and Forty Million Naira but Four hundred million Naira was granted after the scrutiny by the team.

Before the team also to defend their budget proposal, were Plateau Publishing Corporation (PPC) led by its acting chairman PaulJatau.

The budget defence exercise took place on Tuesday, August 1st, 2023, at the Ministry of Finance Board room, Joseph Gomwalk Secretariat Jos.

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