The Federal Government has issued a warning to the chief executive officers of all its Ministries, Departments and Agencies against inflating their personnel budgets for the 2018 fiscal period.
The move is part of the measures aimed at checking cases of ghost workers as well as reducing the rising wage bill, which accounted for about N1.88trillion of the recurrent non-debt expenditure of N2.99trillion in the 2017 budget.
According to reports, the warning is contained in the 2018 Personnel Budget Call circular issued and personally signed by the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma.
The minister said since the Federal Government had commenced the preparation of the 2018 budget, the circular was issued to provide special instructions to all the senior officials of government agencies charged with the responsibility of preparing and submitting their personnel budgets.
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