By Loretta B Manele
For the government, unlike in past years preparing the budget these days is not easy.
Rexon Ramofafia, Minister for National Planning and Development Coordination (MNPDC) expressed this in parliament on Monday, Nov 4.
The Member of Parliament for Fataleka constituency said the preparation of the budget is not easy because of the challenges and environment the country is in as compared to before 2019 where logging played a major role in financing annual budgets.
Ramofafia stressed that looking at the situation especially from the last four years up to now, bringing the budget to the table is a bit challenging for the government.
He said the government is looking at how best to bring the budget and according to their timing, they hope that it will be brought soon to parliament so the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) can scrutinise it.
“I am also happy that PAC assured parliament that the priority is for us to pass the budget.”
Ramofafia said the PAC chair pointed out that people are waiting to see how the budget will look like for the next year.
He said this is what the government, cabinet and caucus are concerned about thus before the budget makes it way to parliament, they want to be sure about the transformative programs that really need to be included in the budget.
