{"id":6964,"date":"2017-10-04T14:58:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T14:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:22:33","slug":"activists-demand-national-assembly-to-urge-government-to-submit-budget-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/activists-demand-national-assembly-to-urge-government-to-submit-budget-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists demand National Assembly to urge government to submit budget bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its opening session of this 2 October 2017, the National Assembly should start debating over the budget bill for 2018.The latter was not however submitted by the government. Activists appeal to the National Assembly to play its role.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Faustin Ndikumana: \u201cThe National Assembly has to urge the government to submit the budget bill on time\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Burundian activists demand members of parliament to play their role of dealing with issues affecting their country.
\nThey say it is incomprehensible how the budget bill which has begun to be prepared since March cannot be submitted in October. Those activists say the delay to submit the budget bill has become a routine and appeal to the National Assembly to carefully follow the government\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n

Faustin Ndikumana, Chairman of PARCEM, the local NGO concerned with awakening and changing people\u2019s mentality says the government cannot say the budget bill is not ready in October. \u201cThe agenda is actually prepared in March. It is studied in June and finalized in August to be brought before Parliament before October\u201d He says all this period is sufficient to get in touch with partners, to make a list of priorities and give the detailed final budget bill .<\/p>\n

Ndikumana also says delaying the submission of the budget bill has a number of consequences. \u201cThe budget bill is the foundation of all the country\u2019s programs and economy of the whole country. It has to be forwarded to MPs on time and to be carefully analysed,\u201d he says. He appeals to MPs to play their role by pushing the government to avoid such delay. \u201cMPs have to know and play their roles. They have to be strict about the rules so as to push the government to plan its activities more carefully\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Rufyiri, Chairman of the Observatory for the Fight against Corruption and Embezzlement (OLUCOME), says the delay of the government to submit the budget bill shows that there is a problem of good governance. He says the government does not respect its constitution: \u201cIn article 176 of the Burundi Constitution, it is stipulated that the National Assembly has to analyse the budget bill from October to December\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rufyiri says by submitting other laws while ignoring the budget law, the government fails in its duties. He urges MPs to use their power so as to improve the situation. \u201cMPs should ask members of the government to fulfil their duties\u201d, says Rufyiri.<\/p>\n

D\u00e9sire Musharitse, the Finance Ministry Spokesperson, says the ministry is still preparing the budget bill as it has to be carefully conceived, but reassures that it will soon be forwarded to the National Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In its opening session of this 2 October 2017, the National Assembly should start debating over the budget bill for 2018.The latter was not however submitted by the government. Activists appeal to the National Assembly to play its role. Burundian activists demand members of parliament to play their role of dealing with issues affecting their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[1212,1151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6969,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/6969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}