We are scaling up citizens’ engagement in 2026 budget discussions — Taraba Govt

By Femi Bolaji

Jalingo — The Taraba State authorities has announced plans to standard up national engagement to guarantee residents’ inputs are adequately reflected successful the 2026 budget.

The Permanent Secretary of Budget and Economic Planning, Danjuma Saigudu, disclosed this portion declaring unfastened the bilateral fund discussions with ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) of the authorities government.

Saigudu explained that, dissimilar erstwhile exercises, the process would beryllium decentralized with 2 abstracted meetings scheduled successful each portion to collate citizens’ contributions.

“The authorities cannot walk without the fund due to the fact that it is simply a program for improvement crossed the state. For the 2026 budget, we mean to conscionable with the citizens, and this clip around, we are decentralizing it. We volition beryllium having 2 discussions per portion to get input from citizens to guarantee their needs are captured,” helium said.

He added that the bilateral discussions with MDAs were important to scrutinize proposals and streamline them to align with the state’s developmental priorities. The forum, helium noted, besides allows the Ministry of Finance, Budget, and Economic Planning to guarantee compliance with agreed budgetary frameworks.

Saigudu further urged MDAs to beryllium represented astatine the sessions by their accounting officers, who person the expertise to support their proposals.

Also speaking, the Commissioner for Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Dr. Sarah Adi, represented by the Permanent Secretary of Finance, Douglas Kisaba, tasked MDAs to contiguous realistic and workable figures that would enactment a robust and achievable 2026 budget.

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