The 2025/26 budget-making process entered into a critical stage this week.
Under the Public Finance Management laws, the executive must submit to the National Assembly Budget Estimates and the Finance Bill by April 30.
A dispatch from the Cabinet this week confirms that the top executive organ of the State formally adopted the two documents, thus clearing the way for the legislature to consider and approve them with or without amendments.
About this time last year, this column, through an open letter to Parliament, warned MPs that their loyalty to the people will be tested to the limits.
