By Bid Elly David<\/p>\n
Council of ministers has deliberated and passed a whopping 1.8 trillion South Sudanese Pounds as 2023\/2024 fiscal year financial budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n The fiscal budget was passed in Friday\u2019s ordinary council of ministers meeting chaired by President Salva Kiir Mayardit under the theme; \u201cconsolidation of peace and stabilization of the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n National minister of finance and economic planning, Dr. Dier Tong Ngor presented the draft budget before the cabinet for deliberation, passing and referred to the parliament.<\/p>\n Information minister, Michael Makuei Lueth, said the budget prioritized increment of salaries by 400% accordingly with necessary amendments of some issues that affected some ministries.<\/p>\n He stated that the budget also covers SSP 50 billion arrears that accumulated in all the ministries as well as SSP 47.9 billion for Constitutional Development Fund (CDF).<\/p>\n Early this year, Lily Albino Akol, the cluster\u2019s spokesperson said the draft budget estimates for the Financial Year 2023\/2024 faces funding shortfall, due to the recorded significant drop in oil production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bid Elly David Council of ministers has deliberated and passed a whopping 1.8 trillion South Sudanese Pounds as 2023\/2024 fiscal year financial budget. The fiscal budget was passed in Friday\u2019s ordinary council of ministers meeting chaired by President Salva Kiir Mayardit under the theme; \u201cconsolidation of peace and stabilization[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/be.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14207,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions\/14207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}