The Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to present the 2023 appropriation bill to the National Assembly in September.

The Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to present the 2023 appropriation bill to the National Assembly in September.

Akabueze revealed this in Abuja at training on budget preparation organised for over four thousand budget officers drawn from about nine hundred ministries, departments, and agencies of the government, using the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System.

Akabueze who was represented by the Director, Expenditure in the Budget Office, Fabian Ogbu, said the federal government under BUHARI is determined to ensure consistent and timely preparation, submission, and approval of annual budgets as part of its Public Financial Management PFM reforms.

He however, lamented that 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.