By Bosco Bush<\/p>\n
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President Salva Kiir Mayardit has on Monday assented to the Financial and Appropriation Act, approving the 2025-2025 fiscal year budget.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The two Bills were presented to the President by the Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Jemma Nunu Kumba after their approval by Parliament.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, the national legislature approved the budget totalling 4.2 trillion South Sudan Pounds, with a 2.6 trillion deficit.<\/p>\n The budget prioritizes peace implementation, paying salary arrears for civil servants, boosting the agriculture sector, infrastructure, health, and education, humanitarian and among others.<\/p>\n After signing the budget, Michael Ayuen Johnson, Chairperson of the Specialized Committee on Finance and Planning in the national legislature, addressed the media.<\/p>\n He stated that the Ministry of Finance and Planning will be responsible for managing the release of funds to various government departments and agencies once the budget is enacted into law.<\/p>\n The approval of the budget comes at a time when civil servants have gone for nearly a year without salaries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bosco Bush President Salva Kiir Mayardit has on Monday assented to the Financial and Appropriation Act, approving the 2025-2025 fiscal year budget. The two Bills were presented to the President by the Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Jemma Nunu Kumba after their approval by Parliament. Earlier[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31171","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\/2024\/11\/President-Salva-Kiir-signing-the-two-bills.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31173,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions\/31173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}