2022 budget adds up, only highlights were presented, Nkulukusa

SECRETARY to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa has refuted claims by some stakeholders that the 2022 budget is not balancing up, explaining that what was presented in Parliament were just highlights. In a post shared on his Facebook page, Sunday, Matero PF member of parliament Miles Sampa claimed the expenditure side of the Budget presented in Parliament was not balancing by K37,355,003,163. “Spent this afternoon with some MP colleagues and we have discovered that the ‘Expenditure’ side of the Budget presented on Friday by the Finance Minister is not balancing by a huge figure of K37,355,003,163 as per attached. Wondering whether this is some arithmetic error from the learned MOF officials and the Minister or it’s a deliberate effort to ‘hide’...