Shittu Charges ICT Working Team On Budget

BY GLORIA USMAN, ABUJA – Minister of Communications, Dr. Adebayo Shittu has charged the ICT Sector Working Team of the ministry to provide a good budget that will support the realisation of government agenda in the ICT sector.

Shittu, who gave the charge during the inauguration of the ICT Sector Working Team at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja said the team should take the assignment seriously and ensure that a good job is done for the ministry’s budget in view of the fact that their work will be subjected to scrutiny and validation by Sector Working Team that will prepare a report for signature.

According to him; “Timelines and milestones have been prescribed for the working team which we should work assiduously to meet. I am already aware that some of our officers participated actively in the budget training conducted by the ministry of Budget and National Planning”

The Communications minister said a consultant from the ministry of Budget and Planning has been working with the ministry’s officers to help collate inputs into the budget proposal for 2019.

Earlier, the Consultant from the Federal Ministry of Budget and Planning, Dr. Chiichii Ashue said the committee members have done most of what is expected of them such as provide technical guidance to MDAs staff, Clarification on the submission of MTSS-ERGP, the rebranding of the ministry in the next budget etc.

Ahue further said that there has been co-operation from directors for overall approach of consistency.

The Terms of Reference of the Sector Working Team include authoring the 2019-2021 MTSS-ERGP, identifying and collating projects, undertaking projects prioritisation to fit into the 2019-2020 MTSS ERGP, updating the projects’ costing and obtaining the sector’s budget ceiling from Budget Office of the Federation among others.