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The pb advisor for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Abia State, connected programme-based Budgeting Workshop, Prof. Frances Obafemi, has described Dr Alex Otti’s medication arsenic precise transparent successful its budgetary system.
The store is being sponsored by the European Union (EU) with UNICEF arsenic its facilitator.
Speaking with journalists during the store connected “Supporting Sustainable Social Protection System successful Nigeria,” organised by UNICEF and the EU, Prof. Obafemi stated that the authorities has “continued to run a transparent budgetary strategy and is besides consenting to amended connected its transparency.”
“It is supporting UNICEF and the EU to realise a formidable budgeting strategy successful the state. The Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Kingsley Anosike’s passionateness successful making definite budgeting is transparent shows they’re consenting to amended connected their transparency”, Prof. Obafemi stated.
“Before now, budgeting has been an online ministry-based process, but we’re changing, making budgeting programmes and activities determination further. And successful bid to bash that, there’s a request to physique the capableness of applicable MDAs successful the assorted states.
“So, what UNICEF is doing successful Abia, sponsored by EU is to amended the capableness of the unit of the applicable ministries successful preparing programme based budget. And successful doing this, we person assorted steps, archetypal is to thatch them however to hole mean word expenditure which has been done successful Aba successful September 2025.
“The 2nd limb is to hole the process of mean word sectoral strategy. So, what we person present successful Umuahia are the 4 focal sectors namely: Health, Education, Poverty and Social Protection and Planning Ministries.
“Though Abia State authorities is precise enthusiastic successful ensuring transparency successful its budgeting system, our absorption is connected these sectors. So, we’re present successful Umuahia connected the store connected sectoral strategy that would pb america to the mentation of the budget”, she said.
The prof of Economics from the University of Calabar, Cross River State, commended Governor Otti and the Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Anosike, for their doggedness successful ensuring the enthronement of transparent budgeting successful the authorities fiscal strategy and described their passionateness arsenic laudable.
In his contribution, the societal argumentation serviceman of UNICEF astatine the Enugu office, Dr. Victor Chima stressed that Abia State authorities has assisted UNICEF and EU to guarantee transparency successful budgeting portfolio.
He highlighted that the EU was backing the store done UNICEF to guarantee that budgets are adequately and decently done based connected the precedence and imaginativeness of the state.
“Before now, states would fund based connected needs, but UNICEF came successful to fortify the societal extortion system, pointing retired the programme which starts from 2025 to 2027, would guarantee accountability and transparency successful the budgetary strategy of the state,” helium said.
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