By BUUMBA CHIMBULUGOVERNMENT should conduct capacity development workshops for Members of Parliaments on how to interpret the national budget numbers to minimise unfounded speculation and avoid misinformation, an expert has said.This can be done by the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, as well as the Parliamentary Budget Office, according to an Economic Statistician and Fiscal Analyst, Shebo Nalishebo.Mr Nalishebo said it was unfortunate that some Members of Parliament had limited knowledge on the difference between the budget speech and yellow book.He said this in his write-up on the “Inconsistencies’ in the 2022 Budget.”“Soon after the Budget Speech, when some Patriotic Front parliamentarians pointed out that the numbers in the 2022 Budget Speech were not balancing, I thought they were merely politicking.“This is because the format of the Budget Speech presented by the Minister of Finance and National Planning was no different from that presented by his predecessors, including during the time that the Patriotic […]
CONDUCT CAPACITY BUILDING FOR MPS ON BUDGET NUMBERS- EXPERT
