Letters: Citizens must determine how govt distributes financial resources

TRENDS in budget formulation and spending provokes some key questions begging answers from policy communities.

Although the Primary and Secondary Education, as well as the Health and Child Care ministries, are at the apex of the 2023 national budget allocation, evidence from the 2022 budget expenditure shows that the two ministries receive huge allocations, but disbursements were not done optimall, culminating in under-expenditure.

Key informant interviews with officials from the two ministries show that there might be a deliberate ploy by Treasury to suffocate disbursements.

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