The Chief Executive Officer, Delta State Orientation Bureau, Dr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, has said the Delta State government will begin implementation of the 2024 budget soon.
Oghenesivbe said the presentation of the budget to the State House of Assembly is promise made and promise being kept.
This implies that barring any exigencies, government would revert to the January-to-December budget cycle.
Oghenesivbe spoke Wednesday 6th March 2024, on the “Mirror Platform” of Indigenous Correspondents’ Chapel (ICC), during her Chapel Congress in Asaba, the State capital.
Oghenesivbe, who is also the Executive Assistant to the Governor on Communications, said: “The first budget that he signed into law, the implementation is about to start now.
“Because he need to look at all the areas and make sure that the plans we have is in tandem with the budget.
“And then, the implementation structure is well guided to give us that result without borrowing”.
He noted that the implementation of the MORE Agenda would soon be visible by the end of the year 2024, stressing that some of the questions agitating the minds of many Deltans at present, would no longer be asked.
“We will begin to see the manifestation of the MORE Agenda very soon. By the end of this year, some of the questions people are asking now, they may not have any reason to ask those kind of questions any longer because the 2024 budget would have been well implemented and the signs and the gains would have been visible to all of us including the media industry”.
He applauded the governor for the judicious use of public funds since he assumed office as governor of the state, saying “And you can imagine, with all these turbulence here and there, he has not borrowed a kobo and he keeps saying it that we will manage what we have.
Meanwhile, Oghenesivbe, has described the State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, as a good and kindhearted man, “the Governor is a very good man, I know him long enough to know”, he said.
Earlier, the Chapel Chairman, Kenneth Orusi, flanked by his executives, thanked Oghenesivbe, for his humility and accessible policy.
Orusi, promised that members of the Chapel, would work and collaborate with the government in the dissemination of government programmes and policies.
