FG trains 4,000 staff on budget preparation in 900 MDAs

The federal government has started the training of over 4,000 of its staff across 900 ministries, departments and agencies on budget preparation.

The training is being coordinated by the Budget Office of the Federation.

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Mr. Ben Akabueze, the Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation disclosed this at the commencement of the training of the MDAs on 2022 budget preparation using GIFMIS-BPS.

“We shall be training over 4,000 participants involved in budget preparation from about 900 MDAs. Each batch of the training programme is expected to take place over three days, with participants from the same Ministry grouped together and categorised for the different sessions” he said.

He said the training is critical because the “MDAs do not study the Budget Call Circular in detail and as such make mistakes that should ordinarily be avoided if they had complied with the relevant sections of the Budget  Circular. To this end, one of the modules at the training this year will address key items and sections to note in the 2022 FGN Budget Call Circular.”

He noted that the budget office  issued the 2022 FGN Budget Call Circular this year ahead of this training to ensure that all issues and questions that participants may have are adequately addressed during the course of the training sessions.