2022 Budget: Bayelsa Limited By Funds – Diri

Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has disclosed that the implementation of the 2022 budget would depend the availability of funds.
This is just as he restated his administration’s commitment to judicious utilisation of available resources for the development of the state.
Diri gave the assurance while speaking at a stakeholders public interactive session for the preparation of the 2022 annual budget in Yenagoa.
Diri was represented by Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo. the Deputy Governor of the state at the budget parley ahead of the preparation of the 2022 budget of Bayelsa State.
He noted that while budgetary allocations are only estimations of what government intends to do, ” their implementation would be determined by availability of funds”.

Diri said that the expectations of people would be met within the limits of available resources through effective implementation of programmes and projects in the Bayelsa budget.

The governor said that the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic had affected the proposed achievements of government this year.

He called on the participants to make useful suggestions to enrich the budget preparation process, assuring that government would continue to invest in development-oriented projects and programmes.
Budget is an estimation, the implementation is the reality. As we prepare the budget, we should not think that everything will be implemented hook, line and sinker, because resources are not always available.
“Non-availability of resources would make it difficult for us. As Bayelsans, let us desire the available and not aim at what is unavailable,” Diri was quoted as saying of the Bayelsa government’s capacity in the light of limitations to the budget.

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