The Kaduna State Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Muhammed Abdullahi, said on Tuesday that the government had begun preparations for the 2017 budget which would be presented to the State Assembly at the end of September.
Abdullahi said that the target was for the legislature to pass the budget early, so that its implementation would commence from January 1.
He explained that it would be a multi-year budget, which would run from 2017 to 2019.
“’We have received budget proposals from Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs) and we have held revenue defence about three weeks ago on the budget.
“What this means is, we already have a revenue budget for the proposed budget.
“All revenue generating agencies in the state have defended what they proposed as revenues.
“For example, we already have a figure of what we think we will make as internally generated revenue for 2017.
“What we are working on now is the federal components in terms of estimated allocation, and to see whether or not we will be taking debt for 2017.
“Once the two are completed we will have finished revenue budget.”
On the expenditure aspect, the commissioner said his ministry was analysing the budget proposals of most of the MDAs.
