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Momodou
Denmark
11738 Posts |
 Posted - 26 Sep 2012 : 12:04:58
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Why expand if you don't have the means?
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Govt. seeks extra D470m to meet ‘urgent spending pressures’
By Lamin B. Darboe
 The Point: Published on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Deputies at the National Assembly Tuesday considered and enacted the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2012 amounting to a total of D470.7 million.
The motion for the bill, laid before deputies by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Abdou Kolley, is expected to cover, among others, expenditures related to last year’s drought, procurement of vaccines and pharmaceuticals, payment for additional deployment of diplomatic staff, and visit of foreign heads of state.
In moving the motion, Kolley said the 2012 budget was premised on constraining the growth of the domestic debt and thereby consolidating macroeconomic stability.
Revenue performance, he stated, had been increasing marginally in nominal terms during the previous two years, accentuating the need for moderation in government spending,” he said, adding that, so far, budget implementation has been prudent and revenues have performed beyond expectations.
Kolley told deputies that the first half of the year has recorded GLF spending of D2.5 billion representing 64.1 percent of total GLF funds budgeted for fiscal year 2012.
According to Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Kolley, his ministry is currently encountering urgent spending pressures.
“All of these spending pressures were not anticipated in the formulation of the current budget,” he stated.
He further told deputies that, in view of the foregoing, there is need to seek a supplementary appropriation for the rest of the budget year 2012.
Noting that the supplementary will allow government the process to adequately respond to issues that were not adequately budgeted, Kolley said these expenditures are going to be funded through the budget support of $8.7 million of which the World Bank has already disbursed $5.9 million and government expects the AFDB to disburse $2.8 million by the end of the year.
The remaining gap, he went on, will be met from better than expected revenue performance, noting that his ministry will endeavor to streamline spending from budget lines to relatively low priority so as to accommodate the remaining funding gap through resource reallocation.
Source: The Point
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Momodou
Denmark
11738 Posts |
Posted - 26 Sep 2012 : 12:14:18
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D470.7M Supplementary Appropriation Bill approved
BY Author: Aji Fatou Faal
Daily Observer: Published on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Deputies at the National Assembly Tuesday considered and approved the Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2012 amounting to D470.701, 622, for the 2012 Budget.
The Supplementary Appropriation (SAP) will allow government the process to adequately respond to issues that were not adequately budgeted. The additional funds required for the following sectors- SAPs are: Office of the President- D101, 639, 222; National Assembly- D9, 300, 00; Ministry of Defence- D31, 000, 000; Ministry of Interior-D15, 000, 000; Ministry of Foreign Affairs- D15, 000,000; Ministry of Finance- D41, 600, 000; Miscellaneous- D70, 000, 000; Ministry of Agriculture- D121, 562, 400; Ministry of Health and Social Welfare-D52, 600,000; Ministry of Youth and Sports- D12, 000, 000, a grand accumulated total is D470, 701, 622.
Tabling the bill before the House, Abdou Kolley, the minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, said that the 2012 Budget was premised on constraining the growth of the domestic debt and thereby consolidating macroeconomic stability.He said revenue performance had been increasing marginally in nominal terms during the previous two years, accentuating the need for moderation in government spending.So far, he added, budget implementation has been prudent and revenues have performed beyond expectation and the first half of the year has recorded GLF spending of D2.5 billion, representing 64.1 percent of total GLF funds budgeted for the fiscal year 2012.
He said his Ministry is currently encountering urgent spending pressures, while all these spending pressures were not anticipated in the formulation of the current budget. According to him, these include pressures related to last year’s drought, and procurement of vaccines and pharmaceuticals among other needs. “In view of the foregoing, there is a need to seek supplementary appropriation for the rest of the budget year 2012.The above requirement total D470.7M and the details are attached in the SAP document submitted to this Assembly,” he added.
While underscoring that the SAP would allow government the process to adequately respond to issues that were not adequately budgeted, Minister Kolley noted that these expenditures are going to be funded through the budget support of US$8.7million, of which the World Bank has already disbursed US$5.9m, and AFDB expected to disburse US$2.8M by the end of the year. “The remaining gap would be met from better than expected revenue performance whilst MoFEA [Ministry of Finance and Economic Affiars] would also endeavour to streamline spending from budget lines of relatively low priority so as to accommodate the remaining funding gap through resource reallocation,” he added.
Hon. Netty Baldeh, NAM for Tumana, seconded the motion, saying that when they looked at the Supplementary Appropriation itself, most of the items that are coming forward are items outside the control of The Gambia, like increase in fuel, and food prices among others. He acknowledged that Minister Kolley has been very generous and very careful of how money is spent. He added that he is happy to see that agricultural inputs is one of those areas where they are spending lots of money this year.
Hon. Sainey Mbye, NAM for Upper Saloum; Hon. Pa Malick Ceesay, NAM for Lower Saloum; Hon. Baboucarr S. Fadera, NAM for Kiang Central; Hon.Bintanding Jarju, Foni Brefet; Hon. Badou Gaye Sonko, Nominated Member and Hon. Aji Fatou Mbye, deputy speaker of the National Assembly all contributed to the approval of the Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2012.
Source: Daily Observer |
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
1382 Posts |
Posted - 27 Sep 2012 : 20:26:47
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| Despite the troubling drug shortage that is currently affecting our referral hospitals and major health Centres, and patients being forced to buy drugs from private pharmacies at cut-throat prices, The APRC govt still consider it prudent to allocate over D100Million to President Jammeh's office while the Health Sector is forced to do with only D52 Million as supplementary. That is what you call good governance, isn't it? |
I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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Momodou
Denmark
11738 Posts |
Posted - 01 Oct 2012 : 22:07:26
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HALIFA SALLAH ON THE D471 MILLION SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET
43 million on maintenance of aircraft, 8 million on Taiwanese President’s Visit
by Ousman Njie
Foroyaa: Published on Monday, 01 October 2012
Foroyaa approached Halifa Sallah , a Former Minority leader , to ask whether it is normal for Government to request for 470.7 Million Dalasis from the National Assembly to meet expenditures just three months before the end of the Financial year.
The following is his comment.
Halifa: I will be issuing a statement as Secretary General of PDOIS on this matter to show why it is important to have compatriots with experience in the National Assembly who are not praise singers of the executive but are there to serve as oversight. I will send the Press Release to all the Newspapers. If Taranga FM was still on air I would have challenged the Majority leader to a debate on the supplementary Appropriation Bill.
First and foremost, if I were in the National Assembly I would have challenged the constitutionality of some of the expenditures. In short, no money should be spent from the consolidated fund of the country to meet any supplementary expenditure after an Appropriation Act has been passed to authorise expenditure during a Financial year.
For example, the Minister told the National Assembly members to approve D8,139,222 for the visit of Foreign heads of state (that is, Taiwan President's visit). This implies that the money had already been spent before coming to ask for the approval of the National Assembly. That would be unconstitutional. The expenditure would have been classified as unauthorised expenditure. This is the first point.
Secondly, the Minister requested for D43,000,000 (Maintenance cost) for Maintenance of state aircraft, just three months before the end of the Financial year. I would have taken the Minister to task to explain why they would need 43 Million Dalasis for three months maintenance cost of state aircraft while he requested for 25 Million for a whole year's maintenance which is presumed used within a period of 9 Months. Parliamentary oversight is weak and PDOIS will have to do it from the outside through inviting the Majority leader to debates on policy and issuing press Releases.
Source: Foroyaa Burning Issues |
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Oct 2012 : 00:22:36
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| Halifa should shut-up because whenever he speaks on issues of national importance, he takes the eyes off the ball because people see nothing but his own arrogance and disingeneousness. |
I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
Edited by - Nyarikangbanna on 02 Oct 2012 00:24:05 |
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sankalanka
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Posted - 02 Oct 2012 : 07:02:10
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I believe the most qualified person to speak on national issues would be Halifa Sallah. Not only does Halifa knows what he is talking about, but he is also informed through a critical evaluation and analysis of the facts as it relates to any facet of our governing instruments.
Halifa takes the time to diligently study these governing instruments and master their fine prints. This is one of the reasons why Halifa would confidently challenge anybody who thinks that they understand these governing instruments better to a public debate. No one is yet to accept this challenge, not the least his vociferous detractors.
Halifa has nothing to prove to anybody, but if you want to be taken seriously as a detractor, and you think that you are more conversant with our issues of national import, why not challenge the man on the substance and depth of the arguments that he proffers, rather than making nauseating public comments about him, that has the potential of being marginalized in Gambian politics. Nobody will take you seriously.
If you want to take on a pillar, an entrenched voice in our national conscience, an astute statesman and an erudite scholar particularly on national issues, you definitely have to show us something. Just empty and mocking tirades are not going to do it.
Long before young Gambians have studied to become lawyers and constitutional scholars, Halifa has thoroughly studied and understood the Gambian constitution and publicly breaks it down, both in speeches and in writings; he has also invariably talked and wrote about the Gambian political and economic situations, that awakened the consciousness and gave political orientation to a generation of young Gambians who are now in the forefront of the Gambian political struggle.
Not only has Halifa helped to developed a political and economic blueprint for the Gambia, but the political party the he represents has taken positions on every policy issues on governance, as a respectable and formidable political alternative to our governments both in the first and second republics.
When you have a thorough understanding of the dialectics of our politics, as Halifa does, and the evolutionary processes and its contradictions that has evolved our system of governance, and consolidated all its power structures, it is just a matter of time; a matter of time, when those who understand the intricacies of this evolutionary process will take control.
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Oct 2012 : 13:43:30
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Originally posted by sankalanka
I believe the most qualified person to speak on national issues would be Halifa Sallah.
The most qualified???? What a delusional statement. No wonder people don't take the disciples seriously. |
I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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sankalanka
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Posted - 02 Oct 2012 : 15:01:57
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I want to take you seriously, but you are making it increasingly difficult to do so. I want to engage you on the Gambian political situation; the Gambian economic situation and the general socio-cultural pathology of the country, but you are also making it very difficult to do so.
I remember when I used to go to school and expound on the ideas of the man whom you now so detested; my teachers were astounded and amazed that a young student in the first years of college could grapple with such polemics. This was the result of voraciously devouring every issue of Foroyaa from its inception, and hanging around the man whom you now considered me to be his disciple.
Well, I am open to engage you on the Gambian political question; on the Gambian socio-economic question. You can then judge for yourself how much the disciple has learned from the master.
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Oct 2012 : 15:57:08
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Originally posted by sankalanka
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Originally posted by sankalanka
I want to take you seriously, but you are making it increasingly difficult to do so.
I have decided not to take you seriously for you have made it totally and utterly impossible for any serious person to take you seriously by being this delusional.
Halifa the most qualified person??????? What a statement!!!!!!! |
I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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sankalanka
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Posted - 02 Oct 2012 : 17:38:58
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Well, we will then have to leave it at that, if this is all you can contribute after all I have stated since I started to respond to your postings about Halifa.
I deliberately made the decision to respond to any posting you make about Halifa, hoping that I can draw you into a wider discussion of the fundamental arguments that underpins Halifa's political insights, his political vision, and to examine some of the postulations he has made in the past and in the present, all within the context of the broader Gambian political spectrum.
For someone who has a predisposition, as a partisan leaning political operator, to the architecture of a future Gambian polity, the encounter would have been both rewarding and insightful.
The Gambia's political evolution is going through very interesting times, but be rest assured that there are some silent observers who are watching everything, and no one should be under the slightest illusion that they can dictate what can happen. |
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Oct 2012 : 18:33:32
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But you do not worth any serious person's engagement due to your extreme delusion. So yes, we have to leave it like that.
Halifa, the most qualified?????? What an extra-ordinary delusional statement!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
I do not oppose unity but I oppose dumb union. |
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